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Private A P VAN DER MERWE

Service Number: 4910
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Horse

9th

Date of Death

Died 08 September 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MOROGORO CEMETERY

IV. D. 7.

Tanzania

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Andries Petius and Mathilda Georgina Van der Merwe (nee Pretonius), of Grootfontein School of Agriculture, Middelburg, Cape Province.
  • Personal Inscription GOD WILL LINK THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

MOROGORO CEMETERY
Tanzania
Number of casualties: 393
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