In Memory Of

RICHTER, JOHANNES MARTINUS GYSBERT

Service Details
Age:
 29
Date of Birth:
 1970-04-16
Service No:
 86411139PE
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 19 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 South African Air Force
Date of Death:
 1999-10-23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Atlas Oryk #1215, at Kroonstad. Ten people died and 14 were injured in the crash outside Kroonstad. Members of the SA Army, the Kroonstad area commandos, SAP and the SAAF were busy with a crime prevention exercise, Operation Tsoha II, based at a temporary base at Bossiespruit. This flight was one of the short flights that took support personnel on a "thank you" flight. This flight was the third one the Oryx had done that day. The wreckage was found along the Vals River.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 F9
Cemetery:
 BETHAL NEW CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Mpumalanga
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Husband of Mrs. N. Richter. ref. 85 years of SAAF