In Memory Of

EVERY, EDWARD RICHARD

Service Details
Age:
 31
Date of Birth:
 1956-04-05
Service No:
 72302342PM
Rank:
 Major
Unit:
 1 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 South African Air Force
Date of Death:
 1988-02-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, shot down whilst on an operational sortie in Angola, in Dassault Mirage F1AZ #245. Shot down by a Soviet SA-13 Gopher Surface-to-Air Missile at Cuatir near Menongue. The aircraft was seen to crash in flames and disintegrate on impact with the ground. A Special Forces team covering the area where the Mirage wreckage was located reported a large number of FAPLA and Cuban Air Force intelligence personnel picking through the wreckage and called in an artillery barrage onto the wreckage. The MRL Rocket-launcher Troop under Pierre Franken hit the spot with a half-ripple of 127mm High Explosive Fragmentation Rockets and two FAPLA trucks were required to collect the more than 143 Cuban and FAPLA bodies that were killed by this rocket barrage.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 H1 - Memorial Stone - Body not recovered
Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Every