Louis Washkansky

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Born 1913.

His family moved to South Africa in 1922, when he was 9, and he became a grocer in Cape Town. Washkansky saw active service in WW2 in East and North Africa and Italy. He married in ???? , Ann. Patient who received the first heart transplant on 3rd December 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

Died on 21st December 1967.