Service Details
Name:
 WARD
Given Name:
 DAVID JOHN
Initials:
 D J
Service No:
 75289629PE
Rank:
 Staff Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 101 Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1984-03-11
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Date of Birth:
 1959-06-03
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, contact with enemy. He was killed in an ambush when he was wounded in the right hip but died of blood loss
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. S. Ward, of Johannesburg. His ashes lie next to his grandmother's in the St. John the Baptist Anglican Church.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Free State
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Cemetery:
 HARRISMITH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Ashes at St. John The Baptist Anglican Church, Harrismith, Free State

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