Service Details
Name:
 DU RANDT
Given Name:
 WILLEM J
Initials:
 W J
Service No:
 81199878BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 3 South African Infantry Battalion
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Unit 2:
 "O" Coy, Mortars
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Date of Death:
 1985-04-07
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Cause of Death:
 Died in Freak Accident, taken by a crocodile about a kilometre below the Epupa Falls, where he and others in his section were swimming, at Epupa Falls, Kaokoveld, South West Africa
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. M. M. Breytenbach, of Pretoria.
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:
 Body not recovered

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