Service Details
Name:
 WITBOOI
Given Name:
 GILBERT
Initials:
 G
Service No:
 C/275114
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 Cape Corps, S.A. Forces
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Unit 2:
 attd. Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces
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Date of Death:
 1944-01-28
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Date of Birth:
 1915-05-07
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, in hospital. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Additional
Information:
Son of Jan and Alima Witbooi, of Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa. Captured in June 1942 at Tobruk.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I, B, 1.

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