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Corporal WILLEM SCHONKEN

Service Number: 138024V
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Reserve Brigade, S.A. Forces

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1945

Age 54 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT ELIZABETH (NORTH END) CEMETERY

Sec.KK. Row 9. Grave 163.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Husband of Catherine E Schonken, of Port Elizabeth.
  • Personal Inscription HIER RUS MY DIERBARE EGGENOOT EN ONS VADER
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT ELIZABETH (NORTH END) CEMETERY
Eastern Cape South Africa
Number of casualties: 112
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