Identity
Person No.
5479
Service No.
35488V
Last Name
First Name
Jacobus
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died of accidental electrocution, at Foggia, Italy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Armour
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Pretoria Regiment, formed 1 July 1913 as an Active Citizen Force infantry battalion. Converted to armour 1943 (Italian Campaign, RAC depots in Egypt). Renamed Pretoria Armour Regiment 2019; one of 52 Reserve Force units renamed that year.
Notes
Son of Jacobus and Maria Magdalena de Witt, of Pretoria. Husband of Barendina Jacoba de Witt, of Skeerpoort, Pretoria. Born Upington, Cape Province. A clerk. He had no children. originally buried in the Foggia Civilian Cemetery on the 21 May.
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