Service Details
Name:
 VENTER
Given Name:
 ERASMUS ALBERTUS
Initials:
 E A
Service No:
 76201920BG
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. 52nd Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1979-08-16
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Date of Birth:
 1959-07-23
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in accidental explosion, when a 30mm HE shell from an Impala was picked up by a fellow soldier, the shell was unexploded and one of the two of them took it apart with a swiss army knife. The shell exploded killing him. This happened at 2 Mil Area.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. E. P. Venter, of Pretoria.
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 1036.

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