Service Details
Name:
BOTHA
Given Name:
PHILLIPUS
Initials:
P
Service No:
80413552BG
Rank:
Corporal
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Regiment:
South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
7 South African Infantry Battalion
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Date of Death:
1984-04-17
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Date of Birth:
1964-01-16
Age:
20
Cause of Death:
Accidentally killed, suffered multiple shrapnel wounds in an accidental rifle grenade explosion. While a patrol was resting on the verandah of the little church at Nehone, a member of the patrol was tampering with a captured M-60P1 Yugoslavian HEAP Pencil STRIM Rifle Grenade that exploded, killing two members instantly and wounding four others, at Nehone, Southern Angola
Additional
Information:
Son of Hermanus Petrus Johannes and Lea Gertruida Botha. Brother of Marietha Moolman, of Beaufort West.
Commemoration
Country:
South Africa
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Locality:
Mpumalanga
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Cemetery:
LYDENBURG CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
1B

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