In Memory Of

FOURIE, HERMAN

Service Details
Age:
 20
Date of Birth:
 1961-12-16
Service No:
 78471182BG
Rank:
 Trooper
Unit:
 1 Special Service Battalion
Regiment:
 South African Armoured Corps
Date of Death:
 1982-01-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Northern Ovamboland, together with two twin brothers, during Operation Handsak, when they detonated an anti-personnel landmine which had been planted on top of an anti-tank landmine. They were inspecting a Buffel of the Support Troop which had hit a landmine while out on patrol the previous day
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 MOLTENO CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Eastern Cape
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. A. J. S. Fourie and brother of Mrs. R. Annadale, of Molteno