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Identity
Person No.
29259
Old ROH no.
20
Service No.
80622079BW
Last Name
Apollis 1
First Name
Pieter
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1961 (±1 yr) 380
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
09 July 1985 117
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident 290
Died in Shooting Incident, after suffering a fatal gunshot wound resulting from an accidental discharge of a fellow soldiers rifle
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Cape Corps 1,517
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Unit
53 Battalion 4
Defence Force
SADF 3,821
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,859
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
South African Defence Force (1957–1994)
Part of
Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Modular Infantry Battalions under South West Africa Command
Notes

Son of M. Apollis. Lived in Firgrove, Cape Town

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.

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