Name: |
DU TOIT |
Given Name: |
PIETER GERHARDUS VILJOEN |
Initials: |
P G V |
Service No: |
84379122BG |
Rank: |
Lance CorporalOther Casualties of this Rank |
Regiment: |
South African Medical Health Service |
Date of Death: |
1988-04-18Other Casualties on this
Date |
Age: |
19 |
Cause of Death: |
Killed in action, at Xangongo, in contact with the enemy. Trained as Ops Medics at SAMS Training College. Viljoen was later to be attached to the Bushmen unit of 201 Bn SWATF at Omega in South West Africa. On the 18th of April 1988 he was attached as Ops Medic to one of the 201 Battalion Reaction Force units. By this time he was an experienced combat medic. They were following up on a SWAPO spoor when a combined Cuban / Fapla force of approximately 200 intervened and a fierce fire fight took place. Rifleman Petrus Wama was killed by either an RPG rocket or a heatstrim in the initial attack and Viljoen was seriously wounded. He could not be found after the contact and about a month later his body was recovered by a Recce element buried in a shallow grave. Whilst still alive he was taken by SWAPO to a nearby kraal where he was murdered. |
Additional
Information: |
Son of Col. M. S. du Toit |
This information was last verified for accuracy: 2017-05-01
