Service Details
Name:
 KAVETU
Initials:
 M
Service No:
 81966137SWH
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 South West African Territory Force
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Unit:
 102 Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1988-07-09
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Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during a contact with insurgents when he detonated a Soviet POMZ-2 Anti-Personnel Picket Mine.
Additional
Information:
Corporal Kavetu was the last Operational Casualty of 102 Battalion during the Bush War.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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