CRASH ENDS ROMANCE
South African Tragedy
SYDNEY. Dec. 26.
The aircraft crash in which MajorGeneral Dan Pienaar, of South Africa, was killed, ended a love story due to have a story-book ending on Christmas Eve, reports a “Sydney Morning Herald” London correspondent. One of the 11 officers killed with him was his aide-de-camp, Captain Peter Cloete, heir to extensive wine estates. The Prime Minister of South Africa. General Smuts, was to have announced on Christmas Eve the engagement of his 21-year-old adopted daughter, Kathleen de Villiers, tn Captain Cloete.
Captain Cloete’s original surname was Bairnsfather, under which he was aide-de-camp to Sir Herbert Stanley, former Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was well known throughout the Western Provinces as a footballer and cricketer. He flew with General Pienaar last month when Pienaar was arranging details of leave for the South African First Division, then fighting in Libya. This was General Pienaars third war. The first, the Boer War, he spent in a concentration camp while his parents were fighting the British. In the next two he fought fiercely for Britain.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 3
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