In Memory Of
VAN BREDA, WILLEM BREDA
Service Details
Age:
24
Date of Birth:
1920-01-21
Service No:
32805V
Rank:
Corporal
Regiment:
Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-11-07
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, shrapnel wounds on his thigh and leg, received on 6 November during shelling by a light howitzer while on a B Coy forward patrol near Mount Sterlese, Italy
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. A. 15.
Cemetery:
CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Johannes R. and Emma van Breda, of Arcadia Street, Pretoria, Transvaal. Born in Louis Trichardt, Transvaal.
