In Memory Of
DU PRE, GERARD WILLIAM
Service Details
Age:
27
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
215614
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
26 Air School
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1943-12-06
Cause of Death:
Died in Aircraft Accident, Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk I/II #3593, 3 crew (2 RAF), control lost during stall demonstration and crashed 10 miles west of Pietersburg
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Mil. Sec. Grave 8.
Cemetery:
POLOKWANE (OR PIETERSBURG) CEMETERY
Localitly:
Limpopo Province
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Jacobus Martinus and Cecilia Johanna du Pre; husband of Nicoleen M. du Pre, of Andalusia. Commemoration stone in Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery. His brother also died in service
 CEMETERY/South Africa/du Pre_GW.JPG)