Jacobus Josua Francois Martens (Jozua) 
Jacobus was born about March 1912. Jacobus' father was Jacobus Cornelius Martens and his mother was Catharina Elizabeth Steenkamp. His paternal grandparents were Jacobus Joshua Francois Martens and Susanna Elisabeth Martens; his maternal grandparents were Roelof Petrus Steenkamp (Gerhardus Dreyer) and Cornelia Christina Kriel. He had two brothers and four sisters, named Roelfie, Hendrik, Tant Corrie, Tant Sannie, Tant Katie and Maria. He was the fourth oldest of the seven children. He died on January 28th, 1944 in Orvieto, Italy.Death Notes
INFO FROM FAMILY; "presumed killed at Orvieto whilst POW"
but belied by the facts; Rank:Staff SergeantService No:1703Date of Death:28/01/1944Age:31Regiment/Service:Umvoti Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces Panel Reference: Column 121. Memorial:ALAMEIN MEMORIALAdditional Information:Son of Johannes C. and Catherina E. Martens; husband of Olive M. Martens, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
General Notes
Alternative spelling of Josua from marriage certificate.
WW2
POW
INFO FROM FAMILY; "presumed killed at Orvieto whilst POW" ....but belied by the facts;
Rank:Staff Sergeant
Service No:1703
Date of Death:28/01/1944
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Umvoti Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces Panel Reference: Column 121. Memorial:ALAMEIN MEMORIALAdditional Information:Son of Johannes C. and Catherina E. Martens; husband of Olive M. Martens, of Durban, Natal, South Africa
Family may still be right as Alamein Memorial includes individuals in service of the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave.
NOTE; It also appears that there were no camps or battles at Orvieto but additional info suggestes that prisoners captured in Egypt (for Umvoti Mounted Rifles almost all captured at Tobruk) were transported to camps in Italy.
I think problem solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_prisoner-of-war_camps_in_Italy Pg 54 Location; Passo Corese, Fara in Sabina
35 km (22 mi) from Rome. 4,000 lower-ranked British, South African and Ghurka prisoners, mostly from the surrender of Tobruk, were held in two compounds of tents,[5] with very poor conditions and food shortages. Many prisoners escaped into the Apennine Mountains when guards deserted as the Italian Armistice was announced on 8 September 1943.[6] It was reorganised by the Germans, became a transit camp and was completely evacuated in January 1944 ahead of the Allied advance.[7] The 1,100 British, South African and American prisoners of war were put on a train to be taken to a camp in Germany. On January 28, 1944, they were crossing the Orvieto Railroad Bridge North in Allerona, Umbria, when the American 320th Bombardment Group arrived to bomb the bridge. Unaware that there were Allied prisoners on the train, they dropped their bombs on their targets. The Germans left the prisoners locked in the boxcars and fled. Approximately half the men were killed by the bombs, or when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river below.[
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.01 Jan 1727 in Messdorf, Altmark, Brandenburg, Prussia d.02 Feb 1774 in Cape of Good Hope
- b.~ 1760 d.< 1849
- b.06 Oct 1737 d.1770
- b.01 Sep 1801 d.27 Feb 1887 in Greytown
- b.~ 1744
- b.29 Mar 1771 in Western Provence, Cape of Good Hope d.30 Apr 1849 in at the house of her grandson Gabriel Stephanus Maré, Graaff Reinet
- b.03 Oct 1751
- b.03 Sep 1841 in Pietermaritzburg d.06 Dec 1915 in Vryheid
- b.10 May 1810 in Cape of Good Hope d.22 Oct 1887 in Greytown
- b.15 Apr 1873 in Du Plessis laer d.08 Oct 1970 in Vryheid Hospital
- b.~ 1760 d.< 1849
- b.1800 in Cape of Good Hope d.20 Feb 1877 in NearTable Mountain, Natal
- b.29 Mar 1771 in Western Provence, Cape of Good Hope d.30 Apr 1849 in at the house of her grandson Gabriel Stephanus Maré, Graaff Reinet
- b.02 Feb 1824 in Graaff Reinet d.06 Mar 1892 in Greytown
- b.04 Oct 1760 d.11 Nov 1842
- b.24 Jul 1808 d.20 Nov 1879 in Natal
- b.1767
- b.19 Aug 1844 d.07 Oct 1895
- b.22 Jul 1823 in Graaff Reinet d.07 Aug 1893 in Greytown
- b.~Mar 1912 d.28 Jan 1944 in Orvieto, Italy
- b.1818
- b.30 Jun 1845
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- b.15 Sep 1881 in Vryheid d.27 Dec 1936 in Johannesburg
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Details of Jacobus' family with Olive Margaret van Heerden
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