In Memory Of

HEDENSKOG, SHOLTO BROUGH

Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
1976-11-04
Service No:
P057659Y
Rank:
Marine
Unit:
UKLF CSG
Regiment:
Royal Marines
Date of Death:
2003-03-21
Cause of Death:
Died in Aircraft Accident, U.S. CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, crash south of the Kuwait border
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Cremated - Ashes scattered at Peninsula Nature Reserve, Cape Town
Cemetery:
CREMATED
Localitly:
Western Cape
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Tertia Hedenskog of Claremont, South Africa. Originally from South Africa. His memorial service was held at the Methodist Church in Brooklyn, Pretoria, and was packed with mourners. The church was so full that those who arrived late had to stand at the back. Young people, Hedenskog's friends from Valhalla Primary School, Sutherland High School in Centurion and Rhodes University, dominated the congregation. The Royal Marine's mother, Tertia, and sisters Megan and Eva, who live in Cape Town, attended. His father, Nick, who has been divorced from his mother for a number of years and lives in Johannesburg, did not attend. His father was in a nursing home in Johannesburg and had taken the news very badly. Hedenskog had joined the Royal Marines in November 2000 after leaving university with a degree in human movement studies. Apart from his stint in Iraq, Hedenskog had also served in Afghanistan. He was a member of the elite group of Marines known as Y Troop.