Service Details
Name:
 FOURIE
Given Name:
 HERMAN
Initials:
 H
Service No:
 78471182BG
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 South African Armoured Corps
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Unit:
 1 Special Service Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1982-01-20
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Date of Birth:
 1961-12-16
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in Northern Ovamboland, together with two twin brothers, during Operation Handsak, when they detonated an anti-personnel landmine which had been planted on top of an anti-tank landmine. They were inspecting a Buffel of the Support Troop which had hit a landmine while out on patrol the previous day
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. A. J. S. Fourie and brother of Mrs. R. Annadale, of Molteno
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Eastern Cape
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Cemetery:
 MOLTENO CEMETERY
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