In Memory Of
TOIVO, SIMON
Service Details
Age:
24
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Special Constable
Unit:
South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)
Regiment:
South West African Police
Date of Death:
1986-05-11
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Likely buried in Namibia - Alternative Commemoration until grave found
Cemetery:
UNKNOWN CEMETERY
Localitly:
Unknown
Country:
South Africa
Additional Information
ref. "The Covert War" by Peter Stiff