In Memory Of

BLIGNAUT, JAN HENDRIK

Service Details
Age:
21
Date of Birth:
1922-07-29
Service No:
226248V
Rank:
Corporal
Regiment:
Pretoria Regiment, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-06-21
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, when his tank (he was the driver) was hit by rounds fired by a Tiger Tank, in the vicinity of Cetona, Italy
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II, D, 10.
Cemetery:
BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Hendrik Petrus and Caroline Aletta Maria Blignaut, of 257 Jameson Park, Nigel, Transvaal. Born Pretoria. A scholar. He was unmarried.