Service Details
Name:
 BOSCH
Given Name:
 JACOBUS PHILLIPPUS
Initials:
 J P
Service No:
 37851
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 South African Police
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Date of Death:
 1970-08-12
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Cause of Death:
 Died in Freak Accident, drowned in Zambezi River, downstream from the Chirundu Bridge, while on Counter-insurgency duty in Rhodesia. He was washing in the river and it was presumed he was taken by a crocodile. His body was never found.
Additional
Information:
ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE MEMORIAL, PRETORIA (UNION BUILDINGS)
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Grave Reference:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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