Service Details
Name:
 BOSMAN
Given Name:
 CHRISTO
Initials:
 C
Service No:
 70306568N
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Navy
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Unit:
 SAS Walvisbaai
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Date of Death:
 1978-10-09
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Date of Birth:
 1954-04-10
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Drowned, lost at sea, about 7 miles west of Walvis Bay. While busy with minesweeping exercises, his foot became entangled in a cable holding a marker buoy and he was dragged overboard
Additional
Information:
Husband of Mrs. L. Bosman, of Wynberg, Cape Province.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 06. - Body not recovered

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