In Memory Of

VERMEULEN, PETRUS HERMANUS

Service Details
Age:
 27
Date of Birth:
 1913-10-18
Service No:
 P/102699
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 12 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 South African Air Force
Date of Death:
 1940-12-05
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Junkers #656 was hit by AA fire, near Mega, Italian Somaliland, while on a photographic/observation mission. The starboard engine caught alight and the aircraft force landed in enemy territory, just south of the Abyssinian escarpment
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Column 239.
Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
 Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Mr. G. J. Vermeulen, of Viljoenskroon, Orange Free State. A university student at Stellenbosch University.