Service Details
Name:
 COETZEE
Given Name:
 CHRISTIAAN WILHELMUS
Initials:
 C W
Service No:
 61625
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Field Force Battalion, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1/2
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Former Regiment:
 formerly South African Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1941-02-19
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Date of Birth:
 1906-02-02
Age:
 35
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, whilst a POW. He was captured at El Sod on the 15 February but died in hospital from wounds received during a bombing attack by allied aircraft, 4 days later
Additional
Information:
Son of Willem Stephanus and Martha Jacobrena Coetzee (nee Potgieter), of P.O. Straatsdrift. Husband of Johanna Margaretha Frederika Coetzee (nee Denner), of Lotteringskop, District Zeerust, Western Transvaal. Born in Marico, Transvaal. He was a farmer. He had 2 children.
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. G. 24.

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