In Memory Of
SMIT, GIDEON JOHANNES
Service Details
Age:
18
Date of Birth:
1959-09-03
Service No:
75560086BG
Rank:
Trooper
Unit:
1 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 - May be buried in West park or Krugersdorp cem
Cemetery:
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
Localitly:
Gauteng
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smit, of Durban Deep, Roodepoort.
