In Memory Of

VAN DEVENTER, PETRUS JOHANNES

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1919-05-14
Service No:
 105637V
Rank:
 Corporal
Regiment:
 Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1945-04-18
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, shrapnel wound - compound fracture of right thigh, received during the attack on Monte Caprara, Italy. He was evacuated to hospital but died 2 days later
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 III. D. 14.
Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Italy
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Silver Star (USA)
Citations:
 LG 14 May 1948 - "Corporal Petrus Johannes van Deventer, South African Forces, was awarded the Silver Star (Posthumously) for gallantry in action while serving with the Witwatersrand Rifles, Regiment de la Rey, South African Forces, in Italy, during World War II. General Orders: Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, General Orders No. 88 (1945)"
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. van Deventer, of Coalbrook, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Taaibosspruit, Orange Free State. A miner at Clydesdale Collieries