Identity
Person No.
15079
Service No.
152604V
Last Name
First Name
Petrus Johannes
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received in battle accident, from a Thompson Machine Gun bullet wound in the neck, fired accidentally by a fellow soldier who was cleaning same
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
First City/Cape Town Highlanders 112
Formerly
Cape Town Highlanders
(1943)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Marthinus Wessel Marais, of Victoria Street, Vryburg, and later of Turfontein, Johannesburg. His brother also died in service.
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