Service Details
Name:
 BERRY
Given Name:
 PETER DAVID
Initials:
 P D
Service No:
 80016298PN
Rank:
 Staff Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South West African Territory Force
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Date of Death:
 1982-08-18
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Date of Birth:
 1949-05-28
Age:
 33
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 40 miles inside Matabeleland during Operation Drama, a clandestine mission into Zimbabwe
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. L. E. Berry. According to news reports at the time, the bodies "were disposed of" by the Zimbabwean Government as the relatives did not claim them.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Body not recovered

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