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Identity
Person No.
2293
Service No.
60011
Last Name
Botha 262
First Name
Willem Adriaan Vosloo
Initials
W A V
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1916 (±1 yr) 485
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
24 October 1942 299
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Field Force Brigade 26
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XI. D. 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
XI. D. 9.
Notes

Son of the late Willem Adriaan Vosloo Botha and Maria Cathrina Cornelia (nee Rood formerly Botha) Swanepoel, of Jan Hofmeyer Township, Johannesburg. A postal clerk by trade

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