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Private F J POTGIETER

Service Number: 8548V
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Witwatersrand Rifles/Regiment de la Rey, S.A. Forces

Date of Death

Died 13 October 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY

II, A, 25.

Italy

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  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Jacobus F. Potgieter, and of Susan E. Potgieter, of Grahamstown, Cape Province.
  • Personal Inscription BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 502
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