In Memory Of
SCARPA, BERTIL EDWARD
Service Details
Age:
34
Date of Birth:
1910-08-03
Service No:
250907V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Regiment:
First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-09-01
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, at 11:40 a.m. Scarpa with two soldiers was sent to investigate the anti-personnel mines that had been placed by the South Africans themselves. The patrol accidentally detonated one that killed him and wounded the other two soldiers, one of which L. D. Oosthuizen died of. 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. 18.
Cemetery:
FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Edward and Vera Scarpa; husband of Rosalie Geraldine Scarpa, of Katberg, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Johannesburg. A salesman
