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Pioneer PETER GYSBERT VAN DER MERWE

Service Number: D/874
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Pioneers

Date of Death

Died 18 December 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LUMBO BRITISH CEMETERY

II. B. 7.

Mozambique

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Barend Jacobus van der Merwe and Anna Magdalena van der Merwe, of 13, Charles St., Beaconsfield, Cape Province.
  • Personal Inscription UIT DEN DOOD OVER GEGAAN IN HET LEVEN
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Buried or commemorated at

LUMBO BRITISH CEMETERY
Mozambique
Number of casualties: 75
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