Dirk Kruger

Lieutenant Dirk Jacobus Kruger was a South African officer of the British Army who was killed during the First World War.
He was born in Cape Colony, South Africa, the son of Jan Andries and Anna Kruger. His father later remarried, to Hester Johanna Maria Kruger.
Originally a private in the South African Infantry. Kruger later obtained a commission as a second lieutenant in the 23rd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. He died, aged 29, on 2 April 1918, during Germany's Spring Offensive on the Western Front.
Kruger is buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme
==References==
*Kruger, Dirk Jacobus, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1918 deaths
Category:South African military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:Buried in France
Category:Lieutenants