Service Details
Name:
 WATERMEYER
Given Name:
 NORMAN MAITLAND
Initials:
 N M
Service No:
 207152V
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 24 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-02-03
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Date of Birth:
 1914-12-20
Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, shot down, direct hit on tail section, in Martin B-26 Marauder Mk II #FB478
Additional
Information:
Son of Vipan Maitland Watermeyer and Bertha Lilian (nee Liefeldt). Husband of Dr. Maud Watermeyer. Born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 20th December 1914. Educated Reitz Public School, Orange Free State. After Bothie apprenticed to Clan Line. Later left the sea to take up Land Surveying. In 1941 he enlisted with the SAAF.
Commemoration
Country:
 Greece
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Cemetery:
 SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4. D. 19.

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