Identity
Person No.
26605
Service No.
142377
Last Name
First Name
Andries Petrus Jacobus
Initials
A P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,365
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died as a POW, whilst being loaded onto railway wagons to be transported to Germany, the rail yards at Aquila were bombed by USAF B-25 bombers. About 200 POWs were killed, all who were trapped in locked cattle cars
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Andries Petrus and Susara Elizabeth van der Merwe, of P. O. Torrington, via Zeerust, Transvaal
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