Jacob Kovco

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jacob Kovco
Occupation	Soldier
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1980(1980-09-25)
Age	44
Date Of Death	April 21, 2006, Baghdad, Iraq
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Libra

Jacob Kovco Biography

Jacob Kovco is one of the most popular and richest Soldier who was born on September 25, 1980 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Kovco grew up in Briagolong in Victoria’s Gippsland region, east of Melbourne, and completed the Victorian Certificate of Education at Maffra Secondary College in 1998. Before enlisting in the army, he worked in a knackery processing dead livestock. He was a keen mountain bike rider and also raced motorcycles. He was married to Shelley and they had two children, Tyrie and Alana.

Kovco enlisted in the Australian Army in March 2002 and was posted to the School of Infantry, Singleton, in May 2002. After completing his Initial Employment Training as a rifleman, he served in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Australia’s airborne battalion. After being posted to the 3rd Battalion, he was trained as a heavy weapons operator before training to become a sniper.

Jacob Kovco Net Worth

Jacob Kovco is one of the richest Soldier from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacob Kovco 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jacob Bruce “Jake” Kovco (25 September 1980 – 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was “irresponsibly self-inflicted”, and that when he pulled his gun’s trigger he “disregarded the possible consequences of danger”.

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New South Wales coroner John Abernethy, assumed “jurisdiction in relation to any inquiry into his identity, the date and place of his death and the manner and cause of his death”, and organised for homicide investigators at the State Crime Command to coordinate the investigation with the army’s special investigations branch. An autopsy conducted on 1 May 2006 determined the cause of death to have been a single bullet wound to the head. The shot left no powder burn, and passed straight through the soldier’s body, close to his temple. The bullet itself was not passed to the coroner, and is apparently missing.

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Jaden Ranked on the list of most popular Soldier. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Jacob Kovco celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.

Private Kovco’s body was originally scheduled to be returned to Australia on 26 April 2006. It was apparently misplaced during its return to Melbourne, and the body of 47-year-old Bosnian civilian contractor Juso Sinanovic was sent to Australia in its place — a mistake Brendan Nelson blamed on a mortuary attached to the Al-Sabah General Hospital in Kuwait and the private contractor Kenyon International. Kenyon International, a privately owned company, was exonerated of any wrongdoing. According to Military Board of Inquiry’s final report, Kenyon was contracted to return Private Kovko’s remains, but at no stage was Kenyon International required to identify Kovko. His company sergeant major in Iraq, Warrant Officer Tim Cuming, accompanied Kovco’s body back to Australia. Cuming claimed privilege against self-incrimination during the coronial inquest into Kovco’s fatal shooting, against allegations that he intimidated military witnesses before the military inquiry.