Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Virtual Memorial

No physical monument or cemetery exists in Angola for these men — SADF Border War dead were repatriated to South Africa, and their national commemoration is the SADF Wall of Remembrance at the Voortrekker Monument (see Memorial #1). This page is a virtual memorial: it gathers, in one place, the ROH records for the campaign fought around Cuito Cuanavale, south-eastern Angola, from August 1987 to April 1988 — Operation Moduler (the Lomba River battles, halting FAPLA's drive on Mavinga), Operation Hooper (the push back toward Cuito Cuanavale itself), and Operation Packer (the final, largely unsuccessful attempts to force FAPLA's Tumpo bridgehead east of the Cuito River). Casualty figures for the campaign are disputed between sources (as low as 38, as high as 79 South African dead, depending on the source and exactly which actions are counted); this page lists only the individuals already documented on this Roll of Honour, cross-referenced to the specific operation where the record makes that clear.

Location: Cuito Cuanavale, Cuando Cubango province, Angola

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#	Last Name	First Name	Initials	Rank	Regiment	Panel	Date of Death
29353	Barnard	Johannes Petrus	J P	Rifleman	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-01-19
30001	De Lange	Jacques	J	Signalman	South African Corps of Signals	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-21
30556	Groenewald	Andre Schalk	A S	Rifleman	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-14
30561	Groenewald	Pietir Henrich	P H	Rifleman	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-14
30684	Hendricks	Clinton	C	Bombardier	South African Artillery	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-25
31096	Kleynhans	Jan Hendrik	J H	Corporal	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-14
31282	Lecuona	Marius Johann	M J	Lance Corporal	South African Armoured Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-03
31619	Maritz	Gerhardus Martinus	G M	Sergeant	South African Corps of Signals	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-21
32276	Nieuwenhuizen	Vincent Vernon	V V	Rifleman	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-14
32580	Price	William Arthur Frederick (billy)	W A F	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-17
33700	Venter	Van Zyl	V Z	Corporal	South African Infantry Corps	Hooper Operation Hooper	1988-02-21

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale Virtual Memorial

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