In Memory Of
KEKANA, JOSEPH SEKGALABYE
Service Details
Age:
39
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
N/8922
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-01-28
Cause of Death:
Killed whilst a POW. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Column 161.
Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Aaron and Dora Kekana; husband of Helena Kekana, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
