In Memory Of
VAN ZYL, IGNATIUS FRANCOIS
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
W89397P
Rank:
Constable
Unit:
South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)
Regiment:
South West African Police
Date of Death:
1986-05-11
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, during a fierce contact with heavily armed PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland when their Z5S Casspir was hit by a Soviet RPG-7 Anti-Tank Rocket
Commemoration
Cemetery:
POTCHEFSTROOM CEMETERY
Localitly:
North West Province
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994
