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Identity
Person No.
19921
Service No.
39300V
Last Name
Pelser 11
First Name
Johannes Petrus
Initials
J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1921 (±1 yr) 698
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
15 June 1944 112
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, during the attack on Allerona, Italy
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey 151
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Italy 1,880
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY 187
Grave Reference
II, F, 16. 1
Coordinates
42.58562, 11.99863 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Witwatersrand Rifles, formed 1 May 1903. Active Citizen Force regiment through WWI/WWII/Border War (1970-1994 Border War operations). Renamed Bambatha Rifles 2019. Needs further research on Regiment de la Rey naming/merger history.
Notes

Son of Karel J. Pelser and Maria Cathrina Petersen (remarried?), of Zastron, Orange Free State. Born in Zastron. A shoemaker by profession.

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