Service Details
Name:
 VAN HEERDEN
Given Name:
 JOHANNES HENDRIK
Initials:
 J H
Service No:
 66566647E
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 42 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1969-01-07
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Date of Birth:
 1943-11-07
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Cessna 185 #734. Aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from the airfield at Kutanga Bombing Range, east of QweQwe in Rhodesia. Multiple burns.
Additional
Information:
Son of Petrus Louis and Anna Maria (du Toit van der Westhuizen) van Heerden. His mother may have remarried to van Protsenburg, of Carnarvon. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Northern Cape
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Cemetery:
 CARNARVON CEMETERY
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