Identity
Person No.
39304
Service No.
PR43602
Last Name
First Name
Willem Gerhardus Cornelius
Initials
W G C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, from multiple shrapnel wounds, in Kandeya Tribal Trust Lands, Mount Darwin, Op Hurricane
Military Service
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Formerly
Royal Rhodesia Regiment
(1970)
Unit
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
Notes
ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.
Research notes
Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
Citations
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
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