Service Details
Name:
 WESSELS
Given Name:
 LOUIS THEODORUS HERMANUS
Initials:
 L T H
Service No:
 75339440PE
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 1 Parachute Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1981-01-15
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Date of Birth:
 1959-06-09
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during a fierce contact with a numerically superior FAPLA and SWAPO/PLAN force while supporting 32 Battalion during the Battle of Cuamato in Southern Angola. The Paratroopers had retreated in order to re-group when they were subjected to heavy enemy mortar fire. He was killed instantly when hit by mortar shrapnel.
Additional
Information:
Son of Johannes Hermanus Wessels and Annette Marguerite Wicht, of Universitas, Bloemfontein.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Free State
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Cemetery:
 BLOEMFONTEIN (IN MEMORIAM) CEMETERY
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