
Husband of Mrs. M. M. Badenhorst, of Durban. Also relative of R. Badenhorst, of Boksburg or Lichtenburg
SASFA In Memoriam (operators): confirmed Special Forces operator. SASFA: Badenhorst Antonie KIA 1977. https://www.recce.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/4.1.-Memoriam.pdf 26 Aug 2026: Unit was leftover "(empty)"; Regiment was "1 Reconnaissance Regiment". SAWGP Regiment 1 Reconnaissance Commando with no separate unit.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: dates of death differ -- 1 day(s) apart: Mike 1977-10-29 this record 1977-10-28. A gap of a few days commonly separates wounding from death, or a burial date from a death date. Flagged, not changed.
Jack Greeff, "A Greater Share of Honour: The Memoirs of a 'Recce' Officer" (3rd edition, September 2023, ISBN 978-1-920702-37-3), chapter 4 "Operation Kropduif", pages 90-96. Greeff was in the assaulting force at Eheke on 28 October 1977 and walked the ground immediately afterwards, so this is EYEWITNESS testimony rather than a compiled account. This record is the seventh man of the Eheke dead. Greeff's list of those killed reads "Wentzel Marx, Neville Clack, Sergeant-Major F.C. van Zyl, 'Vingers' Kruger, Barries Barnard were all dead", plus Gary Walker and Les Greyling, who died of wounds. QUERY, flagged not resolved: he names a BARRIES BARNARD where this roll has Badenhorst, and there is no Barnard on the roll for 28 October 1977. Either Greeff misremembered the surname of the man this record commemorates -- his book was first published in 2001, twenty-four years afterwards -- or an eighth man died at Eheke and is missing from this roll. The counts match exactly at seven if the two are the same man. Not merged, not created, and no assumption made either way.
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