61 Mech Bn Group Veterans Angola Battlefield Tour 2010

摘要

On 11 October 2010 a group made up mainly of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group veterans, led by Maj Gen Roland de Vries (retd) and Col Jaap Steyn, left on a seventeen-day odyssey of Remembrance to the Border War battlefields of Angola. After spending the first night at Kang, in central Botswana, the group crossed the border into Namibia and rushed headlong into an 'ambush' set up by 61 Mech veterans in Windhoek. There they were met by the Head of the Namibian Defence Force, Gen Martin Shali, Brig Gen Karel Ndjoba, Col Bob Khadila, and the group's guide, Koos Moorcroft, retired former Sergeant-Major of the South African Army and the proprietor of African Bushcraft & Survival Adventures.