Identity
Person No.
29609
Service No.
73399941BG
Last Name
First Name
Willem Hendrik Christoffel
Initials
W H C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Military Service
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
452 Parachute Battalion
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
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
Grave Reference
Location
Additional Information
Notes
Son of L. J. and Elizabeth Jacomina Johanna Holtzhausen Britz, of Ventersburg.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
https://www.izkor.gov.il (Israeli Fallen Soldiers & Victims of Terrorism database — search by name)
South African War Graves Project