Service Details
Name:
TOIVO
Given Name:
SIMON
Initials:
S
Rank:
Special Constable
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Regiment:
South West African Police
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Unit:
South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)
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Date of Death:
1986-05-11
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Age:
24
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
Additional
Information:
ref. "The Covert War" by Peter Stiff
Commemoration
Country:
South Africa
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Locality:
Unknown
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Cemetery:
UNKNOWN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Likely buried in Namibia - Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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