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Identity
Person No.
32675
Service No.
75090423PG
Last Name
First Name
Carlos Alberto Correia Pinto
Initials
C A C P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Military Service
Rank
Lance Corporal
Secondary Unit
Army
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Missing believed killed, during a contact between Luenge and Coutada du Mucusso about a week before S Sgts Roxo and Soeiro were killed, much further south along the Okavango river. He was driving a Unimog loaded with a tonne or more of explosives when he ran into an ambush while the company he served in was on its way back to Buffalo. He was probably hit by a RPG 7 which meant that the whole truck exploded and his remains could not be recovered. It was because of that incident that Col Breytenbach sent Ribeiro senior home to visit his mother after the second ambush in which Daniel Roxo et al were killed and which led to Robbie Ribeiro also getting killed in that nasty overtaking incident on the Golden highway
Additional Information
Notes

His brother Jose Correia Pinto Ribeiro also died in service.

Citation
Unknown
External Source

https://www.izkor.gov.il (Israeli Fallen Soldiers & Victims of Terrorism database — search by name)

South African War Graves Project

southafricawargraves.org — record #32675