Identity
Person No.
5914
Service No.
196039
Last Name
First Name
Christian Jacobus
Initials
C J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Military Service
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
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
1941-12 to 1942-01
About
Operations against Bardia and Sollum by 2nd South African Division including the South African Police Brigade, culminating in the early-January 1942 assaults. George Stegmann describes a mass funeral of fourteen men from his battalion after heavy fighting.
Notes
Son of Johannes W. and Petronella A. Dorfling, of Steytlerville, Cape Province, South Africa.
Killed during the attack on Bardia, North Africa (2 Jan 1942), 1st Bn South African Police. George Stegmann (The Lights of Freedom) describes a mass funeral of fourteen men from his battalion after this heavy fighting, with forty wounded and Support Company reporting very heavy losses. Individual nicknames in the memoir (Helsdingen, Malan, Cpl Goosen) may be altered per the author’s note.
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 ↗
Bardia attack / mass funeral context, 2 Jan 1942
Stories 1
Killed in action on 2 January 1942 during the attack on Bardia while serving with 1st Battalion South African Police (South African Police Brigade / 6th SA Infantry Brigade).
George Stegmann’s The Lights of Freedom recounts the same fighting and a mass burial of fourteen men from the battalion, plus some forty wounded.
George Stegmann’s The Lights of Freedom recounts the same fighting and a mass burial of fourteen men from the battalion, plus some forty wounded.
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