In Memory Of

HENDRICKS, CLINTON

Service Details
Age:
 19
Date of Birth:
 1968-07-05
Service No:
 84385459BG
Rank:
 Bombardier
Unit:
 10 Anti Aircraft Regiment
Regiment:
 South African Artillery
Date of Death:
 1988-02-25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, contact with insurgents in South Eastern Angola, near Cuito, during Operation Hooper. He was operating with 61 Mechanized Battalion Group SAM-7 Anti-Aircraft team. Just as he was exiting the vehicle to engage Angolan Air Force MIG aircraft with a SAM-7, an enemy 82mm mortar bomb exploeded next to his Ratel IFV, killing him instantly
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 A5
Cemetery:
 ORKNEY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 North West Province
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Hendricks, of Orkney.