Identity
Person No.
27037
Service No.
196541
Last Name
First Name
Jan Jacobus
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, by enemy shelling near Bir Silkiya, North Africa
Military Service
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,732
South African Police
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Proposed / National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Operation
Operation
Dates
1941-11-18 to 1941-12-30
About
Allied offensive in the Western Desert (Nov–Dec 1941) that relieved Tobruk and pushed Axis forces back from the Egyptian frontier. South African Police Brigade (6th SA Infantry Brigade, 2nd SA Division) fought in the Capuzzo–Bardia–Sollum area.
Notes
Son of Jan Jacobus and Christina Hermina van Staden, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa.
Killed by enemy shelling Bir Silkiya (Dec 1941), South African Police. Stegmann (The Lights of Freedom) describes the first Police Brigade shell casualties around the Capuzzo–Bardia front (long-range German guns); he names a comrade “Potgieter” for the first funeral — some memoir names were changed.
Research notes
Stegmann, George. The Lights of Freedom. Just Done Productions / Lulu, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-920169-48-0).
Citations
Unknown
External References
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South African Police Memorial
open source ↗
South African Police Memorial, Union Buildings, Pretoria (1984).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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Stegmann — The Lights of Freedom
open source ↗
Shelling Bir Silkiya, Dec 1941
Stories 1
Killed by enemy shelling in the Capuzzo–Bardia sector, December 1941, while serving with the South African Police in the Western Desert.
George Stegmann’s The Lights of Freedom describes the demoralising effect of long-range shelling on the same front and the brigade’s early war funerals.
George Stegmann’s The Lights of Freedom describes the demoralising effect of long-range shelling on the same front and the brigade’s early war funerals.
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