Service Details
Name:
 BREYTENBACH
Given Name:
 JOHANNES PETRUS
Initials:
 J P
Service No:
 W27654K
Rank:
 Warrant Officer
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Regiment:
 South African Police
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Date of Death:
 1974-09-17
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Age:
 45
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, accidentally shot while on Counter-insurgency duty in the Chizaria Game Reserve, east of Binga, in the Kariba area, Rhodesia.
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:
 PRETORIA (HEATHERDALE) CEMETERY
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