In Memory Of

DU TOIT, JOHANNES JACOBUS

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 1956-09-14
Service No:
 72283484PE
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 3 South African Infantry Battalion
Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
Date of Death:
 1979-12-02
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, while serving in Rhodesia. His Section was attached to a convoy who were responsible for checking the road for land mines and at sunset, set up a Temporary Base (TB) for the night. Just before 08h00 the following morning, the TB was attacked by a numerically superior force of ZANU insurgents and came under heavy small-arms, mortar and RPG-7 rocket fire. He was wounded in the neck by shrapnel and although treated for his wounds, he succumbed through loss of blood a short while later before he could be evacuated
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 PRETORIA (SILVERTON) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. du Toit, of Valleria, Pretoria.