In Memory Of
OOSTHUIZEN, LOURENS DANIEL
Service Details
Age:
33
Date of Birth:
1910-09-18
Service No:
8236V
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-09-01
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, at 11:40 a.m. Oosthuizen with his Lieutenant and another soldier was sent to investigate the anti-personnel mines that had been placed by the South Africans themselves. The patrol accidentally detonated one and he was wounded. The Lieutenant was killed instantly. The event took place at the Medici Villa dell'Ambrogiana near the Arno river, which was then the seat of a psychiatric hospital
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
III. C. 17.
Cemetery:
FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Abel Hermanus and Hilda Magdalena Oosthuizen. Nephew of Mrs. M. Oosthuizen, of Despatch, Cape Province. Born Aberdeen, Cape Province.
