In Memory Of

BRITZ, WILLEM HENDRIK CHRISTOFFEL

Service Details
Age:
 20
Date of Birth:
 1957-09-09
Service No:
 73399941BG
Rank:
 Private
Unit:
 Training Depot
Regiment:
 South African Medical Corps
Date of Death:
 1978-08-23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during the early hours of the morning when the bungalow in which they were sleeping at Katima Mulilo received a direct hit from a Soviet GRAD-P 122mm High Explosive Katyusha Rocket. SWAPO/PLAN insurgents operating from Zambia fired 20 x 122mm GRAD-P Katyusha Rockets into the town. 18 rockets exploded harmlessly in the veld, one struck a school in the Katima Mulilo Township and the other demolished the Bungalow in which the soldiers were sleeping
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 VENTERSBURG CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Free State
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of L. J. and Elizabeth Jacomina Johanna Holtzhausen Britz, of Ventersburg.