Service Details
Name:
FORTMANN
Given Name:
LLEWELLYN MALCOLM LAWRENCE
Initials:
L M L
Service No:
71303572PE
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
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Regiment:
GROUP 24
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Date of Death:
1999-10-23
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Date of Birth:
1955-12-10
Age:
43
Cause of Death:
Died in Aircraft Accident, Atlas Oryk #1215, at Kroonstad. Ten people died and 14 were injured in the crash outside Kroonstad. Members of the SA Army, the Kroonstad area commandos, SAP and the SAAF were busy with a crime prevention exercise, Operation Tsoha II, based at a temporary base at Bossiespruit. This flight was one of the short flights that took support personnel on a "thank you" flight. This flight was the third one the Oryx had done that day. The wreckage was found along the Vals River
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. J. V. Breytenbach
Commemoration
Country:
South Africa
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Locality:
Free State
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Cemetery:
KROONSTAD NEW CEMETERY
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