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Private JACOBUS VAN ROOYEN

Service Number: 704067
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essential Services Protection Corps, S.A. Forces

Date of Death

Died 21 April 1944

Age 68 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PIETERMARITZBURG (MOUNTAIN RISE) CEMETERY

Mil. Block A. Grave 29.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Christiaan S van Rooyen and Elizabeth van Rooyen; husband of Susanna M. van Rooyen, of Vryheid.
  • Personal Inscription RUS IN VREDE TOT WEDERSIENS
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Buried or commemorated at

PIETERMARITZBURG (MOUNTAIN RISE) CEMETERY
Kwazulu Natal South Africa
Number of casualties: 109
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