Service Details
Name:
 OPPERMAN
Given Name:
 ANDRE LEON
Initials:
 A L
Service No:
 75541946BC
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South West African Territory Force
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Unit:
 32 (Buffalo) Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1978-09-06
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Date of Birth:
 1959-05-20
Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Southern Angola when his patrol came under concentrated mortar, automatic weapons and RPG-7 anti-tank rocket fire after walking into a SWAPO/PLAN ambush close to Chana Omalapapa, North of Beacon 28. He was leading the patrol when he was shot dead at close range by an insurgent using a Soviet PKM machine-gun
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Y. J. Opperman, of Florida, Transvaal.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 D.R. "M" Sec. Grave 14548.

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