In Memory Of
ELWORTHY, DENNIS MICHAEL
Service Details
Age:
20
Date of Birth:
1957-10-25
Service No:
73246241BG
Rank:
Trooper
Unit:
2 Special Service Battalion
Regiment:
South African Armoured 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
Grave Reference:
Panel 06 - CREMATED - Ashes at Garden of Remembrance, St Gabriels Anglican Church, Florida, Johannesburg.
Cemetery:
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
Localitly:
Gauteng
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. D. R. and Mrs. S. Elworthy, of Florida, Transvaal.
