Identity
Person No.
34996
Service No.
W56648R
Last Name
First Name
Zacharas Andreas (donnie)
Initials
Z A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, ambushed by insurgents near Kandahar Island in the Victoria Falls Area, Rhodesia. Shot dead after capture
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994
Research notes
Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 (second pass, this time verified against Cemetery rather than AddInfo text, after the first AddInfo-based pass was found to be unreliable and reverted). This person's own Cemetery is unambiguously outside South Africa; several other people at the same cemetery already correctly show a blank Locality. Cleared rather than guessed at a specific region.
Citations
Unknown
External References
-
South African Police Memorial
open source ↗
South African Police Memorial, Union Buildings, Pretoria (1984).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 26-28 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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