Service Details
Name:
 PHIPSON
Given Name:
 PETE VAUGHAN
Initials:
 P V
Service No:
 73531899BC
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 MOUNTED
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Unit:
 Mounted Okatopi
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Date of Death:
 1976-12-30
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Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, in 1 Military Hospital after being critically wounded near Okatopi when his horse detonated a Soviet Anti-Tank mine during anti-insurgent operations in mid-October 1976. He was flown back to 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria where he unfortunately succumbed to his injuries on 30 December 1976 after complications set in
Additional
Information:
On memorial in Kwazulu-Natal, UNDERBERG, Moth Garden of Remembrance
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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