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Identity
Person No.
20655
Service No.
19322
Last Name
Pretorius 149
First Name
Henry (hendrik Marthinus)
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1909 (±1 yr) 239
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Date of Death
06 January 1947 192
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of cardiac disease 352
Died of heart disease, after discharge
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Cape Town Highlanders 73
Later renamed First City/Cape Town Highlanders (1943)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Western Cape 2,137
Cemetery
CAPE TOWN (MAITLAND) CEMETERY 889
Grave Reference
Sec. 2. Grave 60988A. 1
Coordinates
-33.91592, 18.52805 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Mechanised Infantry — Reserve
Formed 1885 (Cape Town); embodied in the UDF Citizen Force as 6th Infantry from 1913.
Notes

Husband of Frances Elizabeth Pretorius, of Cavendish Villa, Main Road, Parow, Cape Town. Born Kubasi, Grahamstown Dist, Eastern Cape. He had 6 children.

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