Service Details
Name:
 PAVLAKIS
Given Name:
 NIKOLAOS
Initials:
 N
Service No:
 74592940BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 School of Infantry
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Date of Death:
 1979-03-28
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Date of Birth:
 1958-11-30
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, at 1 Military Hospital, received when his patrol, while moving along the Cut-line, was ambushed by a numerically superior force of PLAN insurgents between Beacon 11 and Beacon 12 on the 24 March 1979. He was hit in the head by mortar bomb shrapnel and although every effort was made to resuscitate him, he succumbed to his wounds without ever regaining consciousness. Nikolaas was part of the Infantry School COIN training phase and was with a platoon of Junior Leader candidates that were deployed to the Operational Area
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pavlakis, of Emmerentia, Johannesburg.
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:
 Greek Memorial Sec. Grave 1148

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