In Memory Of
PIENAAR, JOHANNES HENDRIK
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
20553
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
15 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1942-05-04
Cause of Death:
Died of exposure, one of three aircraft that took off on a familiarization and practice mission, never to return. Engine cut, lost height and crash landed near Kufra (Kufra disaster), in Bleinheim Mk IV aircraft #TT2252
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
13. F. 20.
Cemetery:
KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
Country:
Libya
Additional Information
Son of David Strauss Pienaar and Maria Magdalena Pienaar, of Petrusville, Cape Province, South Africa.
