Identity
Person No.
32843
Service No.
74429036BG
Last Name
First Name
Jan Jurgens Roets
Initials
J J R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Secondary Unit
attd. 61 Mechanised Battalion Group
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
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Coordinates
Additional Information
Notes
Son of Stefanus Johannes Bester Schutte and Johanna Susanna Maria Venter. He was unmarried. ("South Africa's Border War, 1966 - 1989" deur Willem Steenkamp bl. 80).
Citation
LG Sup 13 December 1945
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project