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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
27975 Weekes Frederick Albert F A Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-21
33815 Webb Hugh Cecil Hawkesley H C H Lieutenant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1939-02-27
27482 Von Petrikowsky Augustine Albert A A Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
27080 Van Vuuren Stephanus Petrus Janse S P J Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
26976 Van Rooyen Cornelius Johannes C J Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
26921 Van Papendorp Johannes Jacobus J J Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1942-08-10
33551 Van Niekerk Jacobus Oostewalk J O Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1935-07-07
33556 Van Niekerk Petrus Hendrik P H Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1936-12-09
33504 Van Dyk Francois Johannes F J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1936-08-27
33397 Van Dalen Thomas T Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1938-07-29
25399 Torode Albert Raymond A R Lance Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-22
24931 Terblanche Joseph J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
24814 Taylor Eric Rae E R Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-04-23
24587 Swart Jurgens Johannes J J Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-02
24248 Stockenstroom William Charles W C Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-25
24243 Stock Aubrey Ivan A I Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
23895 Spooner Basil Frank B F Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-25
33018 Smith Joachim Elais Petrus J E P Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1936-11-19
22717 Senekal Lambertus Nicolaas L N Lance Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-09-23
22414 Schoeman BAREND (aka BENJAMIN) JOHANNES B J Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-09-23
22409 Schoeler Cornelius Johannes C J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-05
21760 Rogers Walter Louis Francis W L F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1943-11-25
32684 Richter Cornelius Maritz C M Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1934-06-15
21361 Reyneke Christiaan Frederick C F Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1942-10-08
21328 Rennie William MacDonald W M Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-12
19889 Pearson Ronald Gordon R G Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-03
32392 Oosthuizen Jacobus Johannes J J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1938-12-17
19363 Olivier Willem Hendrik W H Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
19169 Oakley Herbert Harry H H Lieutenant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-10-20
18487 Neilson Gerald Frederick G F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-22
18360 Naude Reginald Peter R P Lance Corporal 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
16792 Mitchell Reginald George R G Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-21
16672 Miller Percy Charles Christopher P C C Sergeant UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-25
15324 Marx Paulus Stephanus P S Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
31386 Lotter Marthinus Johannes M J Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1937-04-28
13556 Liebenberg Emile E Major UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
12885 Lancaster Henry Martin H M Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
12708 Kuhn Petrus Lodewikus P L Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-22
12594 Kotze Robert Harry Melville R H M Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-30
11681 Jute Richard Frederick R F Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-06-10
30834 Janse Van Vuuren Daniel Wynand D W Sergeant Major UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1938-04-10
9527 Hayman James John J J Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-07-26
9525 Haylock Charles Frederick C F Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-11-07
9387 Harvey Basil Percy Francis B P F Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-08-26
8732 Gregory Ralph Stuart R S Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1944-04-05
33147 Glass Charles T C Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1954-11-18
7997 Geldenhuys Theunis Gerhardus T G Private UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1940-12-24
7747 Fuller Leonard Royce L R Trooper UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-05-29
7721 Frost Robert Cubitt R C Corporal UDF Special Service Battalion South African Armoured Corps 1945-04-06

Source: https://rohsa.co.za/org.php?dir=desc&id=5278&pdf=1

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