Service Details
Name:
 VAN DER MERWE
Given Name:
 ABRAHAM DANIEL
Initials:
 A D
Service No:
 75411140BG
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 South African Armoured Corps
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Unit:
 1 Special Service Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1978-08-23
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Date of Birth:
 1959-12-01
Age:
 18
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
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. D. B. van der Merwe, of Muller Street, Villiersdorp.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Western Cape
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Cemetery:
 VILLIERSDORP CEMETERY
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