Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal S. L. Pienaar, South African Medical Corps, South African Forces, killed in action in North Africa, 21 January 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘54197 S. L. Pienaar’, very fine (4) £70-90

Stefanus Lodewyk Pienaar was born in 1922, and was a native of Alberton, Transvaal. He enlisted in the South African Medical Corps, aged 18, in June 1940. Pienaar advanced to Corporal in April 1941, and was killed in action during the North African campaign, 21 January 1943 (two days before Tripoli was captured by Montgomery). Pienaar is buried in the Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya.

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