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Special Service Battalion

Battalion
69 records in this database

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Eras

Dates Force Role Status
1946-01-01 UDF Infantry, later Armour Permanent Force (Regular)
Formed 1 May 1933 as a youth-employment/training scheme under Minister of Defence Oswald Pirow (not a combat regiment in this period); became an infantry battalion 1941, then an armoured car commando 1942 and part of 11th SA Armoured Brigade (1943), serving with 6th SA Armoured Division in the Middle East and Italy 1943-45. "Resuscitated as a Permanent Force unit" in 1946 -- unlike most of this batch, the SSB is a Regular/Permanent Force unit, not Citizen Force. 2nd Bn became 1 SA Infantry Battalion 1951-53; 1st Bn became a training regiment. Source

Personnel

69 on the roll

# Last Name First Name Initials Rank Force Regiment Corps Date of Death
129 Adams George James G J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-09-28
335 Algra Halbe Reinder H R Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1943-06-10
823 Baars James Ivan J I Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
1463 Behr Lloyd Basil L B Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-22
2374 Bowker James Albert J A Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-27
2696 Brooke Reginald Acton R A Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-21
3451 Carstens Francois Petrus Van Der Merwe F P V D M Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
3498 Casey Frank Wellesley F W Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-23
3527 Catzavelos Kosta Alexander K A Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
4130 Coetzee Frans Jakob F J Lance Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-09-30
4419 Cooke Masta Olliver M O Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-23
4877 Dadford Ernest John Emmett E J E Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-19
5148 Davis John Lansbury J L Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
5255 De Bruyn Jacobus Engenatius J E Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-09-28
5375 De Meyer Jacobus Petrus J P Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-09-25
5410 De Villiers David Johannes D J Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
6218 Duckitt William John W J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
30261 Erasmus Louis Lourens L L Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1935-02-09
30357 Fourie Daniel Jacobus D J Private UDF Special Service Battalion 1948-05-11
7721 Frost Robert Cubitt R C Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-06
7747 Fuller Leonard Royce L R Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-05-29
7997 Geldenhuys Theunis Gerhardus T G Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-12-24
33147 Glass Charles T C Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1954-11-18
8732 Gregory Ralph Stuart R S Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-04-05
9387 Harvey Basil Percy Francis B P F Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-08-26
9525 Haylock Charles Frederick C F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-11-07
9527 Hayman James John J J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
30834 Janse Van Vuuren Daniel Wynand D W Sergeant Major UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1938-04-10
11681 Jute Richard Frederick R F Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
12594 Kotze Robert Harry Melville R H M Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-30
12708 Kuhn Petrus Lodewikus P L Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-22
12885 Lancaster Henry Martin H M Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
13556 Liebenberg Emile E Major UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
31386 Lotter Marthinus Johannes M J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1937-04-28
15324 Marx Paulus Stephanus P S Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
16672 Miller Percy Charles Christopher P C C Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-25
16792 Mitchell Reginald George R G Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-21
17763 Moyes Robert R Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-24
18360 Naude Reginald Peter R P Lance Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-21
18487 Neilson Gerald Frederick G F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-22
19169 Oakley Herbert Harry H H Lieutenant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-10-20
19363 Olivier Willem Hendrik W H Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
32392 Oosthuizen Jacobus Johannes J J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1938-12-17
19889 Pearson Ronald Gordon R G Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-03
21328 Rennie William MacDonald W M Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-12
21361 Reyneke Christiaan Frederick C F Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1942-10-08
32684 Richter Cornelius Maritz C M Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1934-06-15
21760 Rogers Walter Louis Francis W L F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1943-11-25
22409 Schoeler Cornelius Johannes C J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-05
22414 Schoeman BAREND (aka BENJAMIN) JOHANNES B J Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-09-23