Service Details
Name:
 POTGIETER
Given Name:
 IZAK CORNELIUS
Initials:
 I C
Service No:
 PX/47750
Rank:
 Field Cornet
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 42 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1964-12-07
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Date of Birth:
 1941-02-03
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Cessna 185A #728, near Coligny. He was busy with a tactical exercise as part of "Exercise Musslebreak" and patrolling the Ventersdorp-Coligney Road in a westerly direction. One mile past Bodenstein, he gained height and then crashed
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. S. J. Du Toit Potgieter
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 460

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