Identity
Person No.
33683
Old ROH no.
1582
Service No.
83611715BG
Last Name
First Name
Hendrik Jacobus
Initials
H J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Military Service
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Secondary Unit
Att 101 Battalion
Defence Force
SADF 3,275
South African Defence Force
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,310
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, during a contact with a numerically superior Angolan and Cuban force at Donguena, north of Calueque, in Southern Angola
Grave Reference
Location
Notes
ref. "Buffalo Battalion" by L. J. Bothma
Citations
Unknown
External References
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project
Stories 1
HJ Venter (nick name FENNA) was a 7 SAI Assault Pioneer 1986 to 1988. We opperated out of Ruacana base at the time in Sticks of 3. Fenna and two other Assault pioneers jioned Koefoet and 101 to somewhere into Angola and around 13h00 [Can not remember the exact date]we received the news they where ambushed and a RPG7 whent thru the back of the Caspir and hit FENNA in the Chest.This were info we received from our fellow Assult Pioneers in the same group but difrent Caspirs. He was L/CPL HJ VENTER Hannes Goosen
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