Service Details
Name:
 HARVEY
Given Name:
 GAVIN JOHN
Initials:
 G J
Service No:
 76244718BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 1 Parachute Battalion
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Unit:
 "B" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1981-06-02
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Date of Birth:
 1960-02-28
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, severely wounded in the chest and lungs by shrapnel from a Yugoslavian M60P Pencil STRIM rifle grenade during follow-up operations against SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in conjunction with Koevoet Units on 22 May 1981. He was evacuated to the Hospital in Grootfontein where he was stabilised before being evacuated by air to 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria the following day. He unfortunately succumbed to his wounds in 1 Military Hospital on 01 June 1981.
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Harvey
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 JOHANNESBURG (WEST PARK) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 E.C. "B" Sec. Grave 1514.

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