Identity
Person No.
26608
Service No.
C/304767
Last Name
First Name
Barend Johannes
Initials
B J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,365
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Killed whilst a POW. On 28 January 1944 the United States Air Force bombed a POW train on a bridge near Allerona, Italy. It was carrying Allied servicemen from PG Camp 54, Fara in Sabina, to Germany
Grave Reference
Location
Notes
Son of Pieter and Anna van der Merwe; husband of Naomi Katrina van der Merwe, of Moorreesburg, Cape Province, South Africa.
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