48038Burgher Gerhardus Cornelius Erasmus, Prisoner of War (Boer Forces), aged 18.Died of typhoid while a prisoner of war, India, Kakul (walled cemetery ).
1902
47798Burgher Martha (Martin) Fransina F. Riekert, Prisoner of War (Boer Forces), aged 27.Died of typhoid while a prisoner of war, Ceylon.
1902
48187Burgher Stephanus Petrus Van Der Linde, Prisoner of War (Boer Forces), aged 65.Died of drowned while a prisoner of war, St Helena.
1915
14286Captain Charles MacKillop MacKenzie, Transport and Remounts (South African Service Corps), aged 46.Died of enteric fever.
1915
15605Labourer Peter Mattee, 16261, Transport and Remounts (South African Native Labour Corps).Died of heart disease, at Swakopmund.
1916
505Private William Norman Anderson, 3796, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 32.Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood, whilst a POW.
1916
2740Second Lieutenant Arthur Hugh Brown, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry).Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
3310Private Herbert Campbell, 3078, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 18.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
4006Private William Stephen Clifton, 3251, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 27.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
4311Private James Alexander Colvin, 4372, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 19.Died of wounds.
1916
4394Private Christian Frederick Cook, 827, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood.
1916
4613Sergeant Hugh Leonard Coxford, 6584, 3rd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 22.Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood.
1916
5654Second Lieutenant Charles Henry Dick, 3rd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 41.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
6461Private Ardale Valentine Ernest Edwards, 1228, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 18.Died of wounds, received near Trones Wood.
1916
6622Second Lieutenant Robert Astley Franklin Eminson, 6th Bn. (King's Royal Rifle Corps), aged 24.Killed in action, gallantly endeavouring to bring in a wounded sergeant.
1916
10217Private Jack Sedgwick Hook, 690, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 23.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
10308Second Lieutenant James Charles Hosack, 1st (Cape Corps).Killed in action, at Massinga (near Kangata).
1916
10425Private Arthur Leopold Huber, 6384, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 29.Missing in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
11114Private Aubrey Rodney Jefferies, 2305, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood.
1916
11612Captain Percy John Jowett, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 29.Killed in action, at Delville Wood. Clive Featherstone (1st Bn B Coy) was still holding on in Strand Street. With him was Capt Percy John Jowett, 29 (1st Bn A Coy). Featherstone recalled: "Major Burges sent his orderly to call me to instruct me about a withdrawal. Captain Jowett of C Company went with me. We found that Major Burges had been killed by another shell bursting over his head; Captain Jowett went back for instructions while I remained in charge of both companies, Capt Jowett being the last officer left to C Company. I watched him as he walked back through a world heaving with explosions and sprayed with shrapnel till he disappeared in the drifting smoke and dust for ever.".
1916
11735Private Henry Joseph Page Kalis, 1934, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 20.Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood.
1916
12066Private George Henry Keogh, 2450, 3rd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 39.Died of wounds.
1916
13233Private Robert William Lees, 3165, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 37.Killed in action.
1916
13419Second Lieutenant Charles Thomas Kenneth Letchford, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 28.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
19669Private Thomas Parkes, 1693, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds, received at Delville Wood.
1916
19890Corporal William Robert Colquhorn Pearson, 5710, 3rd Regt. (South African Infantry).Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
21861Second Lieutenant Donald Ross, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 36.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
24769Second Lieutenant Russell Pears Tatham, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 25.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
27125Private Johannes Petrus Marais Van Wyk, 2900, 6th (South African Horse).Died of wounds, received 18th July.
1916
28493Second Lieutenant Lloyd Allison Williams, 1st Bn. (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry), aged 22.Killed in action, by shellfire while holding a trench with his platoon near Longueval during the Battle of the Somme.
1916
28507Private Robert Ball Williams, 212, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 31.Killed in action, at Delville Wood.
1916
29065Second Lieutenant Eric Zeederberg, 20th Bn. (Royal Fusiliers), aged 28.Died on active service.
1916
29170Labourer Jacob Zwelinkhomo, 1502, South African Native Labour Bureau.Killed in action, shell fire, at Makinde.
1917
6708Private Gerhardus Cornelius Nicholaas Erasmus, 15551, 8th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 22.Died of wounds.
1917
17969Corporal Cornelius Johannes Muller, 10240, 7th Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds.
1917
18971Private Harvey Spencer Northcote, 6709, 7th Regt. (South African Infantry).Died of wounds.
1917
19834Lieutenant James Nelson Payne, 8th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 27.Died of wounds.
1917
21463Private Alfred Rickard, 4752, 8th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 31.Died of wounds, received at Narungombe.
1917
22564Driver Samuel Skipo, 7671, Military Labour Bureau, S.A. Forces.Died of dysentery, at Durban Hospital.
1917
23945Second Lieutenant Arthur Reeve Stainbank, 113th Bde. (Royal Field Artillery), aged 23.Killed in action.
1917
24397Private Louis Johannes Strydom, 15209, 8th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 23.Died of wounds, received 19th July.
1917
27422Private Sybrand Willim Albertus Visagie, 15406, 8th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 23.Died of wounds, at Narongumbe.
1918
2532Private Theunis Jacobus Breetveld, 17343, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 27.Died in hospital Charleville, whilst a POW.
1918
2591Private Gideon Retief Briers, 12733, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 20.Died of wounds, received 19th July.
1918
5141Driver George Davis, HT/4362, 2nd Coy. (Cape Auxiliary Horse Transport).Died of pulmonary tuberculosis.
1918
6198Private Ockert Johannes Frederick Du Toit, 13275, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 26.Killed in action.
1918
14720Private Makunta, 1395, Northern Rhodesia Police.Died on active service.
1918
14757Second Lieutenant Eric Charles Male, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 27.Killed in action, at Meteren.
1918
18116Sergeant John William Wall Murray, 6067, 2nd Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 26.Killed in action.
1918
19809Private William Albert Pautz, 14098, 4th Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 20.Died of wounds.
1918
22362Captain Johannes Christoffel Scheepers, 1st Regt. (South African Infantry), aged 22.Killed in action, at Meteren.
1940
20522Pilot Officer Frederick Hyam Posener, 41735, 152 Sqdn. (Royal Air Force), aged 23.Killed in action, Spitfire I K9880, at 1635 hours off Swanage, by Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Homuth, believed crashed at sea.
1940
27356Private John Frederick David Viljoen, 187954, South African Medical Corps, aged 44.Died on active service.
1940
27580Private Alexander McTavish Walker, 135258, 2/3 McC (South African Tank Corps), aged 21.Died of fractured skull, received in lorry accident.
1941
492Signaller Thomas Anderson, 30442, South African Corps of Signals.Died of cardiac failure, in the Middle East.
1941
15498Stoker 1st Class James Russell Matheson, D/KX 100922, H.M.S. Comorin (Royal Navy), aged 29.Died of acute lobar pneumonia.
1942
2702Private George Robert Brookman, 28092, 1st (Rand Light Infantry, S.A. Forces), aged 21.Killed in action.
1942
2974Private Mvombo Bulaimu, NRA/13239, 6th Bn. (Northern Rhodesia Regiment).Died on active service.
1942
5950Private Clifford Dovey, 6089, 1st (Natal Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces), aged 21.Died of wounds, received on 17 July, as part of "C" Coy together with Cape Town Highlanders "B" Coy, in an attack on well defended enemy positions near El Alamein.
1942
12554Sergeant Wilfred Ernald Konigkramer, 1311984, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 23.Killed in action, two RAF Wellington, the HX518 and HX423, belonging to 15 OTU are attacked at the height of the islands Sisargas. The aircraft had taken off from England to the Middle East and met a Ju-88, which rose rapidly to gain speed on them. In two passes tripped the HX518, but in turn the Junkers was shot down by defensive fire from the HX423, which was damaged.
1942
14249Private Kiraryo MacHera, 31766, Northern Rhodesia Regiment.Died on active service.
1942
22956Private Robert Shield, 127741, 1st (Rand Light Infantry, S.A. Forces).Died on active service.
1942
28196Second Lieutenant Deryck George White, 205704, 4 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 23.Killed in action, crashed near 22nd Army Brigade (glycol problem), in Curtiss Tomahawk Mk IIA #AK460.
1943
7115Gunner Willem Filander, C/274634, Cape Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 28.Died whilst a POW.
1943
9674Private Martin Hendricks, M/12013, 107 M.T. Res. Coy. (Indian and Malay Corps, S.A. Forces), aged 32.Died whilst a POW.
1943
18381Private Luka Ncube, N/18567, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces.Shot by Italian guard, whilst a POW.
1943
20992Private Aleck Ramabuya, N/11891, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 30.Died whilst a POW.
1943
24051Air Corporal Johannes Jacobus Gerhardus Steenkamp, 210124, South African Air Force, aged 44.Died of cerebral haemorrhage.
1943
26601Private Albert Van Der Merwe, C/319597, Cape Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 44.Died on active service.
1943
28607Private George Wilson, 316084, Central Army Training Depot, S.A.Forces, aged 37.Died of mental disorder.
1944
889Sub-Lieutenant Edward Roy Bailey, H.M.S. Isis. (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve), aged 19.Mined and sunk off Normandy, France.
1944
6784Private Reginald Victor Sprules Etheredge, 221552, 2nd Bn. (Transvaal Scottish, S.A. Forces), aged 47.Died of hypertension and acute pulmonary edema.
1944
17866Private Freddie Mtetwa, N/32182V, Native Military Corps, S.A. Forces, aged 40.Died of cerebral concussion and contusion.
1944
27444Private Nicolaas Jacobus Campher Visser, 227512, Technical Service Corps, S.A. Forces.Died on active service.
1944
28578Sergeant Wilson, 19623V, 8 Field Sqdn. (South African Engineer Corps).Died on active service.
1945
14855Corporal John Edwin Hardey Malyon, 614239V, 41 Harbour Construction Coy. (South African Engineer Corps), aged 30.Died on active service.
1945
26971Gunner David Van Rooy, C/320518V, 137th M.T. Coy. (Cape Corps, S.A. Forces), aged 18.Died of cerebral concussion.
1973
36107Temporary Sergeant Jan Abraham Meyer, W73589E, 39 Dist (Johannesburg) Tvl Div (South African Police), aged 20.Killed by rioting natives, at Moroka.
1974
33711Corporal Daniel Jacobus Vermaak, 69513323, 1 Maintenance Unit (South African Ordnance Services Corps), aged 20.Died at South Rand Hospital from injuries received in a private vehicle accident at Lenz.
1977
40944Corporal Mubayiwa Msembele, 16858, Depot (Rhodesian Army Service Corps), aged 35.Died of natural causes, on active service.
1978
40534Captain Luis Felipe Braganza Vieira, 134846, Depot (Grey Scouts), aged 21.Killed in action, vehicle ambush in the Wankie area, Op Tangent.
1979
38925Sergeant Raymond W Beamish, 728094, 1st Field Regiment (Rhodesia Forces), aged 30.Killed in action, by a gunshot wound received in the Grapple area while fighting against Pfumo re Vanhu.
1979
38587Auxiliary Constable Alex Mangoro, 200202, Police Reserve (British South Africa Police), aged 20.Died in an accident, in the Op Repulse area.
1979
38767Field Reservist Better Sambulo, A19825, Police Anti Terrorist Unit (British South Africa Police), aged 22.Killed in action.
1982
32412Corporal Michael Daniel Otto, 77492015BT, 912 Battalion (South West African Territory Force), aged 21.Died in Military Vehicle Accident, when the SAMIL vehicle he was driving overturned at Okahandja. He was driving the vehicle down the Bobbejaan Road from Oshiri Base Camp outside Okahandja down the mountain to the tar road T-Junction when the vehicles brakes failed. The vehicle was picking up speed so he decided to carry straight on over the tar road into the veld instead of turning onto the tar road. Unfortunately there was a ditch on the other side of the tar road and the vehicles nose dug into the ditch and the vehicle flipped over. His actions, at the cost of his own life, were instrumental in saving the lives of those who were riding on the back of the vehicle as they were thrown clear when the vehicle flipped over.
1983
30613Special Constable Frans Hamutewya, 82904962SW, South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET) (South West African Police), aged 27.Killed in action, during a contact with SWAPO insurgents in Northern Owamboland.
1983
32053Special Constable Klemens Mpase, 86745999HF, South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET) (South West African Police), aged 22.Killed in action, during a contact with SWAPO insurgents in Northern Owamboland.
1983
40778Rifleman James Tjuima, 4468, Keep Protection (South West African Territory Force), aged 19.Died of pneumonia, while undergoing basic training.
1984
34433Barend Wilhelm De Villiers, 40240, 40 Dist (Krugersdorp) Tvl Div (South African Police), aged 23.Fell to his death through ceiling.
1984
33247Rifleman Anton Uys Theron, 81142531, 8 South African Infantry Battalion (South African Infantry Corps), aged 19.Committed suicide at 8 SAI, Upington. Shot himself while on guard duty.
1987
33773Captain Barend Jacobus Vorster, 79468609PS, 8 Sqdn. (South African Air Force), aged 24.Died in aircraft accident, when his Atlas MB326M Impala Mk I, Serial No. 464 crashed into the sea off Durban during a training exercise with the South African Navy. His rear-seater, Captain Renier Pienaar ejected successfully and was rescued from the sea by the Navy.
1988
33458Corporal Johannes Dawid Gerhardus Van Der Merwe, 79346797BT, 3 Parachute Battalion (South African Infantry Corps), aged 25.Died in Military Vehicle Accident, Buffel Troop Carrier overturned at Batavia.
1990
36840Constable Agrippa Ngqulunga, 0172150-0, Gauteng (South African Police), aged 25.Died in a Motor Vehicle Accident.
1993
34318Sergeant Francois Cilliers, 0415857-1, Kwazulu Natal (South African Police), aged 35.Died on active service.
1994
41931Rifleman Joseph Mahandero, 84716026PE, 2 South African Infantry Battalion (South African Infantry Corps), aged 29.Found dead along the road in Marokeng. Cause of death was undetermined.
1994
37225Lieutenant Colonel Stephanus Christiaan Francois Prinsloo, 0052341-5, 25 Dist (Bloemfontein) OFS Div (South African Police), aged 26.Killed in shoot out with insurgents in Soweto, Johannesburg.
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