In Memory Of
MOOLMAN, PETRUS LAVRAS
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
1917-09-14
Service No:
26523
Rank:
Corporal
Unit:
1st
Regiment:
Imperial Light Horse, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1944-01-19
Cause of Death:
Died in hospital in Egypt, awaiting repatriation. He was reported missing in June 1942 and later confirmed as a POW. He was released in Italy in September 1943 and returned to Egypt where he was hospitalized in October 1943. He was classified as "D" for return to South Africa in January 1944 but died before this could happen
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
4. G. 2.
Cemetery:
HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Emma Melvina Moolman, of 51a High Street, Brixton, Johannesburg. Husband of Dorothea Barbara (nee Botha) Moolman, of 87 Putney Road, Brixton, Johannesburg. Born in Vrededorp, Transvaal. A clerk.
