In Memory Of
WITBOOI, GILBERT
Service Details
Age:
28
Date of Birth:
1915-05-07
Service No:
C/275114
Rank:
Private
Unit 2:
attd. Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces
Regiment:
Cape Corps, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-01-28
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, in hospital. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I, B, 1.
Cemetery:
BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Jan and Alima Witbooi, of Somerset East, Cape Province, South Africa. Captured in June 1942 at Tobruk.
