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Lance Corporal NICHOLAS CHRISTOFFEL VAN SCHALKWYK

Service Number: 2615267
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1940

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOOGSTADE CHURCHYARD

Grave 116.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick Johannes Jacobus and Johanna Alberta Mamia van Schalkwyk, of Uniondale, Cape Province, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription GOD WILL LINK THE BROKEN CHAIN CLOSER WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

HOOGSTADE CHURCHYARD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 12
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