Service Details
Name:
 DU TOIT
Given Name:
 JOHANNES JACOBUS
Initials:
 J J
Service No:
 72283484PE
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 3 South African Infantry Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1979-12-02
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Date of Birth:
 1956-09-14
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, while serving in Rhodesia. His Section was attached to a convoy who were responsible for checking the road for land mines and at sunset, set up a Temporary Base (TB) for the night. Just before 08h00 the following morning, the TB was attacked by a numerically superior force of ZANU insurgents and came under heavy small-arms, mortar and RPG-7 rocket fire. He was wounded in the neck by shrapnel and although treated for his wounds, he succumbed through loss of blood a short while later before he could be evacuated
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. du Toit, of Valleria, Pretoria.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 PRETORIA (SILVERTON) CEMETERY
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