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Identity
Person No.
16320
Service No.
36613
Last Name
Meester 1
First Name
Hendrik
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1920 (±1 yr) 679
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
27 October 1942 173
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Engineer Corps 743
Later renamed South African Corps of Engineers
Unit
3 Field Coy. 13
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
III. C. 9. 1
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 OSM
Memorial
Memorial for South African soldiers who died at El Alamein, 1942. Photo: Farawayman, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_African_Memorial_El_Alamein.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
El Alamein War Cemetery and Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates
30.83819, 28.94707 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
III. C. 9.
Notes

Son of Albert and Frances Sophia Meester, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Pretoria. A public servant

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