Service Details
Name:
 HENDRICKS
Given Name:
 CLINTON
Initials:
 C
Service No:
 84385459BG
Rank:
 Bombardier
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Regiment:
 South African Artillery
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Unit:
 10 Anti Aircraft Regiment
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Date of Death:
 1988-02-25
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Date of Birth:
 1968-07-05
Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, contact with insurgents in South Eastern Angola, near Cuito, during Operation Hooper. He was operating with 61 Mechanized Battalion Group SAM-7 Anti-Aircraft team. Just as he was exiting the vehicle to engage Angolan Air Force MIG aircraft with a SAM-7, an enemy 82mm mortar bomb exploeded next to his Ratel IFV, killing him instantly
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, of Orkney.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 North West Province
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Cemetery:
 ORKNEY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 A5

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