Fire power
A Hawker Hurricane Mark IID of No 6 Squadron, Royal Air Force, demonstrates the effect of its firepower on an abandoned enemy tank in Tunisia, June 1943. Victor Sierra


Fire power

PETRUS JOHANNES MARAIS
8/11/1924 - 12/7/1944 (Age 19)
His medal card bears an entry which shows his age as 16 when he attested with the Regiment De La Rey. In 1942 he was transferred Kimberley Regiment thereafter in 1943 to the Cape Town Highlanders.
At the time of his death he was, like his older brother, attached to the 6th S.A.A.D - 
P.J. MARAIS was wearing the insignia of the combined First City & Cape Town Highlanders Regiments.

KILLED IN BATTLE ACCIDENT


Petrus Johannes Marais killed in Italy

Low-level oblique aerial photograph taken during an attack on an enemy convoy in the Aegean Sea, which was making for Crete. RAF’s Bristol Beaufighters attack one of the German destroyers escorting the 5,300-ton cargo vessel Livenza which was sunk during the attack, end 1943. The Livenza was and old Austro-Hungarian cargo-ship built by Trieste’s Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino on 1916 with the name Lisa and renamed Livenza when, on 1922, was took over by Società Anonima Italiana Di Navigazione based at Genoa. After the Italian armistice, was commandeered by German forces for sea transport on Aegean. Victor Sierra