Service Details
Name:
 DE GREEF
Given Name:
 GIDEON JOHANNES
Initials:
 G J
Service No:
 47410
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 40 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1940-08-20
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hartbees #864, crashed at Bardera, Somalia
Additional
Information:
Son of Andrew A. de Greef, and of Anna E. de Greef, of Melville, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of M. de Greef. In the book "A Gathering of Eagles" there is a note on the bottom of pg. 164. "No 41 Sqd found the wreckage of Lt. G. J. de Greef's Hartbees at Bardera with a note pinned to it saying that he would attempt to walk back to our lines. De Greef had been reported missing on 19th August 1940 and presumed dead on 15.5.41"
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 239.

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