Service Details
Name:
 SWART
Given Name:
 ELNA SUSAN
Initials:
 E S
Service No:
 76011261PE
Trade:
 Miss
Rank:
 Candidate Officer
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 ATC AFB Grootfontein
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Date of Death:
 1980-03-25
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Date of Birth:
 1956-08-18
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Douglas C-47 Dakota #6851, crashed in South West Africa/Namibia. Swart was a young woman who decided to accompany two pilots on a routine mission in Dakota #6851 but, unfortunately, something went wrong and the plane crashed killing all 3 occupants.
Additional
Information:
Daughter of Brigadier C. J. Swart, of Pretoria. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 1058

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