Service Details
Name:
 MATROOS
Given Name:
 PHILLIP DAWID
Initials:
 P D
Service No:
 87092383CK
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 54 Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1988-01-23
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Date of Birth:
 1961-04-05
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during a fierce engagement with a numerically superior force of FAPLA and PLAN troops, in South Eastern Angola.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. H. Matroos, of Wellington.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Western Cape
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Cemetery:
 WELLINGTON CEMETERY, Western Cape
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Grave Reference:
 Military Stone - A1

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