Roll of Honour: Person Info
Personal Details
| Service No: | 76253871BG |
| Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Name: | BIGGS |
| First Name: | KEVIN JOHN |
| Initials: | K J |
Death Details
| Date of Death: | 1978-08-23 |
| Age: | 18 |
| Cause: | Killed in action, during the early hours of the morning when the bungalow in which they were sleeping at Katima Mulilo received a direct hit from a Soviet GRAD-P 122mm High Explosive Katyusha Rocket. SWAPO/PLAN insurgents operating from Zambia fired 20 x 122mm GRAD-P Katyusha Rockets into the town. 18 rockets exploded harmlessly in the veld, one struck a school in the Katima Mulilo Township and the other demolished the Bungalow in which the soldiers were sleeping |
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