Teenage Casualty of WWI: Pte J.H. Van Der Walt

A Teenage Casualty of The War: The British War Medal and South African Victory Medal (1914-18) both impressed named to Pte J.H. Van Der Walt. 4th S.A.I., awarded posthumously, together with the Memorial Plaque named Johannes Hendrick Van Der Walt. Together with copied documents. Van Der Walt, born in 1899 at Sterkfontein, Transvaal had enlisted or attempted to enlist several times, the first om October 1914, when he was just 15. He finally succeeded in Feb.1917 and embarked at Cape Town bound for France. In December of that year he was wounded and evacuated to the 27th Field Ambulance where he died of his wounds on the 23rd. He is buried in the Fins New British Cemetery at Sorel-Le-Grand. He was 18 years old when he died.