Sergeant NICHOLAAS PETRUS VAN DER MERWE
Service Number: 778400
                
                        
                        Regiment & Unit/Ship
                    
                        Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
                        
                        Date of Death
                    
                        Died 20 September 1941
Age 21 years old
    - Country of Service United Kingdom
 - Additional Info Son of Pieter Jacobus Theron van der Merwe and of Stoffelina Cornelia van der Merwe (nee Maartens); husband of Beryl Gwendolyn van der Merwe (nee du Barry), of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
 - Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
 

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