Identity
Person No.
2230
Service No.
232703V
Last Name
First Name
Eduard Pretorius
Initials
E P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,732
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received from machine gun fire in the area South East of Salci, Italy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Coordinates
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 Jacobus Samuel and Else F. (nee Zorn) Botha, of Brooklyn, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. An accountant by trade and worked for the firm Barnes and Taylor in Pretoria prior to enlistment.
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