Identity
Person No.
13926
Service No.
19704
Last Name
First Name
Schalk Willem
Initials
S W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,634
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor accident, at Kloof Nek Rd, Cape Town. He had been discharged med unfit on the 22 Oct 1943
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed
First City/Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of David Johannes and Marcia Johanna Louw, of Nababeep, Namaqualand. Born in Porterville, Cape Province. A welder. He was unmarried. He was living in Camps Bay at the time.
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