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Identity
Person No.
7983
Service No.
36023
Last Name
Geldenhuys 29
First Name
Gert Botha
Initials
G B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1920 (±1 yr) 679
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
09 December 1941 279
Cause code
SEA 815
Lost at sea
Cause of Death
Lost at sea 567
Lost in the S.S. Sebastiano Venier (Jason)
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Regiment Botha 122
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
2nd 452
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Egypt 2,947
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL 1,284
Grave Reference
Column 130. 17
Coordinates
30.83823, 28.94696 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 Alamein Memorial (Missing)
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
Alamein Memorial (Missing)
On the panel
Column 130.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Regiment Botha, formed 1 April 1934 at Ermelo. Active Citizen Force; 2nd Bn served North Africa 1941-42, renamed Regiment Christiaan Beyers 1951; called Regiment Pongola 1960-1966. Renamed General Botha Regiment 2019.
Notes

Son of Pieter Arnoldus and Johanna Cornelia Geldenhuys, of Vlakfontein, P.O. Standerton, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Standerton.

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