Service Details
Name:
 NIEUWENHUIZEN
Given Name:
 VINCENT VERNON
Initials:
 V V
Service No:
 84477751BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 1 South African Infantry Battalion
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Unit 2:
 "B" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1988-02-14
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Date of Birth:
 1968-07-07
Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in South Eastern Angola during a contact with elements of the 59th FAPLA Brigade during Operation Hooper. The B Company, 1 SAI troops had not klaared out prior to deployment for Ops Hooper so they became 61 Mech Battalion Bravo Company Element and swopped over with B Company 4 SAI. Their Ratel Armoured Personnel Carrier, Callsign 22C was hit on the left hand side and knocked out by a 23mm Soviet ZU-23-2 Anti-aircraft gun deployed in the ground role. On the right hand side where the Groenewald Cousins had been sitting, a large hole was ripped out of the vehicle making it apparent that at some point, the Ratel had also been struck by a South African 105 mm discarding sabot anti-tank round
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. E. Nieuwenhuizen, of Zastron.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Free State
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Cemetery:
 ZASTRON CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 A4

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