Identity
Person No.
20366
Service No.
31302V
Last Name
First Name
Frantz Johan Preiss
Initials
F J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, 3 crew + 13 passengers, crashed on approach at Khartoum, in Lockheed B-34 Ventura II #6094
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
Notes
Son of Aiden Henry and Elizabeth Catharina Pitout, of Boksburg North, Transvaal, South Africa.
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