Service Details
Name:
 BREYTENBACH
Given Name:
 PIET M
Initials:
 P M
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit 2:
 Air Force
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Date of Death:
 2002-11-18
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Cause of Death:
 Died in Freak Accident, was busy with the identification of unexploded aircraft-mounted bombs and ammunition at the Roodewal bombing range outside Polokwane (Pietersburg) when a mortar exploded after he had picked it up. He was part of the clearing crew based at the range, which was used by the SAAF.
Additional
Information:
ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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