Category: WW2

Not for Ourselves, but for Others

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Shot Down Over Pembury

  Received this from Rob Johnson.  It appeared recently in a Pembury Village Magazine.  Thanks to the South African War Graves Projects have learned that his brother also died in…
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Lieutenant D.C. “Tommy” Thomas

  Today we profile another one of those South African heroes who served with the commandos on D-Day – Lieutenant D.C. “Tommy” Thomas, from Maclear in the Transkei. His most…
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Corporal William Cloete

  Honouring real South African heroes and here stands an exceptional one. Corporal William Cloete was a Cape Coloured Corps member and the leader of a stretcher bearer team attached…
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