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