Service Details
Name:
 VAN ZYL
Given Name:
 GERRIT
Initials:
 G
Service No:
 74556416PE
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 61 Mechanised Battalion Group
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Date of Death:
 1981-11-04
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Date of Birth:
 1958-04-05
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, during Ops Daisy while carrying out an act of heroism about 2 kms south of Bravo Battalion's HQ in the Chitequeta district of South-Eastern Angola. A small group of FAPLA/SWAPO snipers had pinned down a Ratel platoon for at least 10 to 15 minutes also killing two UNITA soldiers traveling with them and wounding three more
Additional
Information:
Son of Mrs. A. C. van Zyl, of Somerset West.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Western Cape
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Cemetery:
 HOPEFIELD CEMETERY
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