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Corporal ABEL ERASMUS

Service Number: 175756
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Engineer Corps

Date of Death

Died 18 May 1945

Age 59 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VEREENIGING OLD TOWN CEMETERY

Mil. Plot. Grave 16.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of A. D. Erasmus and Aletta Erasmus; husband of Johanna M. Erasmus, of Carolina.
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Buried or commemorated at

VEREENIGING OLD TOWN CEMETERY
Gauteng South Africa
Number of casualties: 48
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