Service Details
Name:
 KRUGER
Given Name:
 OCKERT PETRUS
Initials:
 O P
Service No:
 79241576BG
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Armoured Corps
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Unit:
 1 Special Service Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1982-01-20
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Date of Birth:
 1963-02-07
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Northern Ovamboland, together with his twin brother and another Trooper during Operation Handsak, when they detonated an anti-personnel landmine which had been planted on top of an anti-tank landmine. They were inspecting a Buffel of the Support Troop which had hit a landmine while out on patrol the previous day
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kruger. His twin brother also died in service the same day
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Free State
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Cemetery:
 BLOEMFONTEIN (IN MEMORIAM) CEMETERY
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