In Memory Of

RIBEIRO, CARLOS ALBERTO CORREIA PINTO

Service Details
Age:
 25
Date of Birth:
 1950-11-25
Service No:
 75090423PG
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
Regiment:
 1 Reconnaissance Regiment
Date of Death:
 1976-08-19
Cause of Death:
 Missing believed killed, during a contact between Luenge and Coutada du Mucusso about a week before S Sgts Roxo and Soeiro were killed, much further south along the Okavango river. He was driving a Unimog loaded with a tonne or more of explosives when he ran into an ambush while the company he served in was on its way back to Buffalo. He was probably hit by a RPG 7 which meant that the whole truck exploded and his remains could not be recovered. It was because of that incident that Col Breytenbach sent Ribeiro senior home to visit his mother after the second ambush in which Daniel Roxo et al were killed and which led to Robbie Ribeiro also getting killed in that nasty overtaking incident on the Golden highway.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Memorial Stone - Body not recovered
Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
His brother Jose Correia Pinto Ribeiro also died in service.