Service Details
Name:
 SCHRONEN
Given Name:
 DERICK JOHN
Initials:
 D J
Service No:
 81173254BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 4 South African Infantry Battalion
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Unit 2:
 attd. 61 Mechanised Battalion Group
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Date of Death:
 1983-12-31
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Date of Birth:
 1965-04-02
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in Action during Ops Askari in Southern Angola while attached to 61 Mechanised Battalion Group when a Soviet 82mm High Explosive Mortar Bomb landed and exploded on the Roll-bar of their Buffel Troop Carrier, spraying the inside of the vehicle with lethal shrapnel, killing them instantly
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schronen, of Bothasig, Cape Town.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Western Cape
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Cemetery:
 CAPE TOWN (MAITLAND) CREMATORIUM
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Grave Reference:
 Cremated. Ashes buried at Maitland Garden of Remembrance

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