In Memory Of
BEUKES, LEONHARD VON SOLMS
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
47891V
Rank:
Captain
Unit:
31 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-10-13
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG875, 8 crew (1 RAF and 3 RAFVR), during Partisan supply drop in Northern Italy, crashed into mountain at Valprato Soana at night in poor weather
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Coll. grave I. B. 4.
Cemetery:
MILAN WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Mattheus J. H. and Martha Beukes; husband of Susanna Maria Beukes, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
