Service Details
Name:
 LEBONA
Given Name:
 MOEKETSI WILLIAM
Initials:
 M W
Service No:
 91703991PE
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 GROUP 24
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Date of Death:
 1999-10-23
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Date of Birth:
 1966-03-27
Age:
 33
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:
Husband of Mrs. M. F. Lebona
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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