KUHN Johannes Albertus 1942-1974 & Martha Louwisa 1945-
08 Mar 1974: Four members of the South African Police serving in Rhodesia were Killed in Action and one member was Reported Missing when their patrol was ambushed by ZIPRA insurgents near Kandahar Island in the Victoria Falls Area. The five casualties were:
W46340T Constable Erhard Francois Strydom. He was 35.
W35163M Constable Robert Andrew Swart. He was 33.
W56648R Constable Zacharias Andreas Hough. He was 20.
W58344P Constable Willem Johannes Conradie. He was 22.
W38424W Sergeant Johan Andries Kuhn, the fifth member of the patrol, escaped from the initial ambush but appears to have been captured by the insurgents and murdered at a later date. Despite an intensive search of the area, his body was never located and nothing more was ever heard from him. Interrogation of a captured ZIPRA insurgent months later revealed that he had been executed on the Rhodesian side of the river and that his body had been stuffed into an Aardvark hole. He has no known grave and remains unaccounted for. He was 24. (Supplied by Pieter Henning)
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