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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

Buried or commemorated at

UPPER HEYFORD CEMETERY

Sec. B. Grave 79.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • 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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