In Memory Of

FIDLER, BRUCE ANDREW

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1963-02-23
Service No:
 79517090BG
Rank:
 Corporal
Unit:
 7 Medical Battalion Group
Regiment:
 1 Parachute Battalion
Date of Death:
 1985-09-15
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, captured in a vehicle ambush, during an Op in Angola. He was interrogated and then executed and his body was returned during the Peace Negotiations in 1992
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 13 - Cremated.
Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Honoris Crux (Posthumous)
Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Fidler, of Johannesburg. During a movement his unit was ambushed and he was subsequently captured and interrogated. Cpl Fidler was executed by the enemy during brutal interrogation. He never revealed the presence of his nearby unit although been brutally interrogated thereby enabling them to escape and evade. His remains was repatriated back to South Africa and on 15 September 1995 he was cremated, precisely 10 years after his death. Corporal Fidler was posthumously awarded the Honoris Crux for his actions of bravery. Cpl Fidler's name appears on both the roll of honour of 1 Parachute Battalion and 7 Medical Battalion Groups