Service Details
Name:
 HARMSE
Given Name:
 DESMOND BRIAN
Initials:
 D B
Service No:
 01217066PE
Rank:
 Colonel
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Date of Death:
 1975-10-29
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Date of Birth:
 1929-03-03
Age:
 46
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Beechcraft Baron. He had been detached on special duties as he spoke Portugese. The plane, known as "Dinky Toy" was supplied by UNITA and had been checked out by SAAF personel at Rundu. It was busy with aerial observations for Battlegroup Foxbat in the Silva Porta area of Angola when it crashed, 6km north of Norton de Matos. The SADF investigation team could not determine the exact cause of the crash
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. C. J. Harmse, of Pretoria. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 853

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