Roll of Honor

Roll of Honour

Those who fought and fell in the Angolan / South African Border Wars

Country	DOB	Name	Rank	Unit	Callsign	No	FROM	DOD	Place of Death	Notes	wdt_ID	Status
Cuba	19.01.1961	Mario Aizpurúa Delgado						27.03.1987	Angola		1	KIA
Cuba	30.10.1968	Venancio Goyes Torres					23.12.1986	05.10.1988	Angola	Suicide	2	DOC
Cuba	07.04.1948	Ramón Barrizonte Rodríguez		Civilian				15.07.1979	Angola	Civilian worker killed - ambush by UNITA	3
Cuba	14.09.1946	Fernando Arango Cuesta					06.07.1982	10.08.1983	Angola, Cangamba	UNITA	4	KIA
Cuba	10.06.1954	Bárbaro Alvarez Ramírez	2LT				01.12.1975	13.03.1976	Angola		5	MIA
Cuba	06.02.1960	José Antonio Alvarez González						10.07.1979	Angola	Died of Illness	6	DOD
Cuba	08.12.1948	Orestes Almeida González		Infantry				02.12.1981	Angola	Suicide	7	DOC
Cuba	21.05.1945	Antonio Aguila Llorente						19.09.1985	Angola		8	KIA
Cuba	30.08.1935	Arsenio Acanda Rodríguez						11.03.1977	Angola		9
Cuba	24.11.1943	Raúl Abreu Villar						14.11.1978	Angola		10	KIA
Cuba	14.11.1957	Humberto Abreu Ugarte						12.08.1985	Angola	Accident	11	DAI
Cuba	14.09.1966	Oscar Luis Torres Alfonso		Infantry			01.02.1987	27.05.1987	Angola, Sureño	Suicide	12	DOC
Cuba	13.05.1954	Omar Gastón Caballero						30.04.1984	Angola, Lubango	Suicide	13	DOC
Cuba	08.12.1966	José Miguel Ruiz Soto					14.09.1984	20.09.1984	Angola	Killed	14
Cuba	08.05.1964	Carlos Emigdio Molina Sánchez						14.09.1983	Angola	UNITA	15	KIA
Cuba	08.05.1961	Feliciano Zaldívar Rodríguez						21.01.1990	Angola, Lobito	UNITA attack Paralelo 13, Valle de Ana, Lobito	16	KIA
South Africa		Fred J. Zeelie	LT	1 Recce		68343599PE		23.06.1974	Namibia, Bwabwata		17	KIA
South Africa		J.W. Holm	CAPT	Danie Theron Combat School		67728378PE		23.11.1975	Angola, Ebo	Operation Savannah	18	KIA
South Africa		A. Aurelio	CPL	32Bn		76901420SP		03.01.1984	Angola	Operation Askari	19	KIA
South Africa		I. Malonga	RFN	32Bn		80830409SP		01.01.1984	Angola	Operation Askari	20	KIA
South Africa		W.T. Steenkamp	L/CPL	4SAI/61Mech		80264575BG		04.01.1984	Angola, Cuvelai	when their Ratel 20, Callsign 13B was knocked out near Cuvelai by a T-54 tank during Operation Askari	21	KIA
South Africa		C.P. Els	LT	1SSB/61Mech		84588185PE		03.04.1989	Namibia, Ruacana	Died in Hospital at Ruacana from a head wound sustained during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents near Ongandjera on 03 April 1989. He Died of Wounds in Hospital at Ruacana later that evening.	22	DOW
South Africa		Hermann Carstens	CPL	1 Recce		85212843PE		04.04.1989	Namibia, Eenhana	During a patrol his unit was ambushed and Carstens was killed when his vehicle was hit by an RPG., during fierce fighting with a numerically superior force of heavily armed SWAPO/PLAN insurgents near Eenhana	23	KIA
Cuba	08.03.1939	Policarpo Sánchez Pileta	MAJ					07.08.1982	Angola, Cangamba	At 10:05 a.m. on 8 August 1983, the aviation command post in Menongue asked for information about a helicopter that was shot and the pilot that was wounded during an reccemission. It was not actually a member of the crew, but Major Policarpo Sánchez Pileta (age 44) that had been wounded. As the two helicopters descended to attack UNITA troops, forty kilometers southwest of Tempué, UNITA troops fired on the helicopter and the officer was hit and mortally wounded. The two helicopters arrived at Menongue with the major who was seriously injured, but he died shortly after.	24	DOW
Cuba	24.02.1947	Juan Miguel Benítez Ferrnández	LT	Refuerzo				05.08.1983	Angola, Cangamba	in Cangamba, at nightfall on 7 August 1983, there was a heavy firefight in front of Sector No. 1 as UNITA advanced from the houses, shouting, and the defenders were forced to retreat. The artillery fire destroyed the last remaining BRDM. In Sector No. 3, Lieutenant Juan M. Benítez Fernández (age 36) was killed in the fighting.	25	KIA
Cuba	26.07.1966	Osmani Bermúdez Argüelles						03.12.1987	Angola, Cuito Canavale	mine explosion (6 of his colleagues died along with him). He was part of a reinforcement column that was heading to Cuito Cuanavale. Generally, when an armored vehicle or military vehicle explodes, official historians attribute it to a mine. UNITA (not the SAAF, which had no presence north of Cuito Cuanavale), fiercely attacked the Cuban columns that were bringing reinforcements and war material to the combat zone.	26	KIA
Cuba	25.01.1958	Pablo Ramos Quezada						11.09.1983	Angola	His body was never recovered.	27	KIA
Cuba	28.09.1954	Cecilio Fis Cuba	2LT					10.02.1976	Angola	Presumably against the FNLA, on 2/10/76, on the Northern Front, due to hemorrhaging from the wounds received.	28	DOW
Cuba	06.11.1968	Eddy Gómez Planelles		Sapper				04.03.1989	Angola, Cuito Cuanavale	He died from a mine explosion on 3/4/89 in the Cuito Cuanavale fighting. His body, completely destroyed, could not be recovered.	29	KIA
Cuba	14.07.1945	Elifet Nápoles Suárez		Minint (Special Operations, DGOE				10.12.1975	Angola, Medunda	At the battle at Morros de Tongo on 12-10-75. His body was left in the enemy camp and some Angolans handed it over to the Cubans two days later, and he was buried in Gabela, near Quibala	30	KIA
Cuba	27.11.1956	Facundo Moisés Rodríguez						11.09.1983	Angola	UNITA ambush on the Luanda-Alto Hama highway on 9/11/83	31	KIA
Cuba	10.03.1948	Dagoberto Vázquez Pérez						22.04.1977	Angola		32	KIA
Cuba	13.09.1961	Dalmacio Céspedes González						13.01.1980	Angola	Accident	33	DAI
Cuba	21.07.1962	Daniel Fuentes Cardoza						13.09.1983	Angola		34	KIA
Cuba	20.07.1959	José Miguel Marrero Hervis						04.10.1985	Angola	malaria	35	DOD
Cuba	19.09.1939	Cornelio Durán Castillo						13.02.1976	Angola		36	KIA
Cuba	19.12.1945	Darío Calzadilla Angulo						18.07.1987	Angola	when the helicopter in which he was on shot down	37	KIA
Cuba	29.12.1953	David González Fumero						12.11.1979	Angola	car accident	38	DAI
Cuba		Raúl Quiala Castañeda	LT					07.07.1986	Angola, Vicinity of Luanda	Young pilot who had not yet learned to fly at night, given an irrational order by his superior in Angola to go out at night from the Luena aerodrome and bombard anywhere in the vicinity of Luanda where he saw a fire lit, assuming it would be UNITA guerrillas. He crashed and died, his family was told he died heroically in combat	39	KIA
Cuba	28.12.1952	David Mora Mora						04.10.1983	Angola		40	KIA
Cuba	26.06.1956	David Rojas Rodríguez						04.05.1988	Angola		41	KIA
Cuba	23.03.1940	Dalquis Sánchez						26.06.1976	Angola		42	KIA
Cuba		Delvis Conde Alba						10.01.1977	Angola	traffic accident	43	DAI
Cuba	28.12.1946	José Montero Cuenca						04.04.1983	Angola		44	KIA
Cuba	09.05.1963	Delvis Hernández						28.01.1983	Angola	killed in an accident.	45	DAI
Cuba	13.09.1954	José Omar Expósito Bermúdez						05.08.1976	Angola	killed in an accident	46	DAI
Cuba	23.03.1963	José Oriol Leyva Fonseca						23.11.1981	Angola	land mine	47	KIA
Cuba	08.07.1963	José Rafael Núñez Arias						21.11.1982	Angola		48	KIA
Cuba	21.02.1966	Denis Núñez González						04.04.1988	Angola	killed when a land mine that he was trying to set up exploded	49	DAI
Cuba	12.08.1948	José Ramón Anglada Toro						06.07.1978	Angola		50	KIA
Country		Name		Unit	Callsign	No			Place of Death	Notes		Status