Service Details
Name:
 FERREIRA
Given Name:
 JOHANNES CASPARUS LEMMER
Initials:
 J C L
Service No:
 95466417BG
Rank:
 Rifleman
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 2 South African Infantry Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1978-02-19
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Date of Birth:
 1959-11-03
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Elundu, in contact with the enemy. He was captured and could not walk, so he was murdered in the cruelest way imaginable, by shooting him from head to toe, on automatic, with an AK47, and then stabbing him 42 times with a bayonet
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. J. C. L. Ferreira, of Hospital Park, Bloemfontein. Riflemen Hunter, Bosch and Ferreira were on guard duty at a small post near the waterhole at Elundu, when their position was overrun by SWAPO. In the same incident, Sapper van der Mescht was captured and taken to Angola.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 965.

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