Family tree Getkate » Francis Daniel Grehan (± 1921-1943)

Personal data Francis Daniel Grehan 

  • Alternative name: Frank
  • He was born about 1921 in England, United Kingdom.
  • He died on September 7, 1943 in Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa.Source 1
  • He is buried in the year 1943 in Benoni Cemetery, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa.
    Francis was buried at the Benoni Cemetery, PLOT: Sec. M. Grave 658.
    (Find A Grave Memorial 57623832)
  • This information was last updated on December 10, 2021.

Household of Francis Daniel Grehan

He is married to Erma Ernesta Getkate.

They got married on July 24, 1943 at Durban, Natal, South Africa.Sources 1, 2

Erma was a WAAF Clerk. When they were married she was living at 91 Churchill Road, Durban, SA.

Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)


Notes about Francis Daniel Grehan

At the time of his marriage to Erma, Francis was a Sergeant in the RAF and was stationed at 75 Airschool, Lytleton.

At the time of his death Francis was a pilot in the Royal Air Force. According to the death certificate Francis was at No 4 Air school in Benoni where he was involved in a midair collision between 2 air planes and died from 6th degree burns on his body.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Francis Daniel Grehan

Francis Daniel Grehan
± 1921-1943

1943

Erma Ernesta Getkate
1922-± 2000

(Not public)

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Sources

  1. "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, \i FamilySearch\i0  , FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ).
    "South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7WJS-DRMM : 16 September 2019), Francis Daniel Grehan, 7 Sep 1943; citing Death, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa, National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria.
  2. database, South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996

Historical events

Day of marriage July 24, 1943

  • The temperature on July 24, 1943 was between 11.9 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
    • July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
    • September 6 » Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
    • October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
    • November 22 » Lebanon gains independence from France.
    • November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.

Day of death September 7, 1943

  • The temperature on September 7, 1943 was between 7.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • January 14 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
    • February 23 » Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
    • May 16 » The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
    • September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
    • September 14 » World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
    • November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.


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