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Identity
Person No.
4172
Service No.
62104
Last Name
Coetzee 157
First Name
Willem Stephanus
Initials
W S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1913 (±1 yr) 376
Age at Death
29
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
Corporal
Regiment
Field Force Battalion 78
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY 528
Grave Reference
XI. D. 15. 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. 15.
Notes

Son of Willem Stephanus and Martha Jacobina Coetzee, of Groot Marico, Transvaal, South Africa.

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