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Lance Corporal JACOBUS POTGIETER

Service Number: 39234V
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Tank Corps

Date of Death

Died 12 November 1943

Buried or commemorated at

PIET RETIEF CEMETERY

Grave 506.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Potgieter; husband of Catherine J. Potgieter, of Ruplaas.
  • Personal Inscription RUS IN VREDE
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Buried or commemorated at

PIET RETIEF CEMETERY
Mpumalanga South Africa
Number of casualties: 10
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