Service Details
Name:
 LEWIN
Given Name:
 ARNOLD CHARLES
Initials:
 A C
Service No:
 75293472BG
Rank:
 Signaller
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Regiment:
 South African Corps of Signals
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Date of Death:
 1978-11-19
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Date of Birth:
 1959-11-20
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Died of heat exhaustion, at 1 Military Hospital. While at Grootfontein, he was sentenced to a period in the Detention Barracks where he was over exercised and collapsed, suspected heat exhaustion. Charges of culpable homicide and perjury were laid against 6 members, two Military Policemen from the Detention Barracks and 4 prisoners, when it was alleged that he had also been assaulted. The results of this case are unknown
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. Alex and Jean Lewin, of Cassandra, Kimberley. He was a member of 101 Signal Unit.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 05 - Cremated, Ashes scattered at Gods Window, Eastern Transvaal

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