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Second Lieutenant DOUGLAS HAIG VELLEMAN

Service Number: 206216V
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Air Force

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NANYUKI WAR CEMETERY

1. 15.

Kenya

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Peter G. J. Velleman and Elizabeth M. Velleman; husband of Anne K. Velleman, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription "I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS"

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Buried or commemorated at

NANYUKI WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 237
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