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Identity
Person No.
29302
Old ROH no.
37
Service No.
66206756KT
Last Name
Badenhorst 62
First Name
Johannes Cornelius
Initials
J C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1949 (±1 yr) 199
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
08 December 1977 142
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, during a contact with insurgents when their patrol walked into a PLAN ambush near Ruacana
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,342
Unit
Regiment North Natal insignia Regiment North Natal 1
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,850
Locality
KwaZulu-Natal 1,589
Cemetery
VRYHEID CEMETERY 37
Grave Reference
Unknown
Coordinates
-27.78104, 30.79888 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System category
Part of
Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Regiment › Units
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Awards
Pro Patria Medal
Pro Patria Medal
South Africa
Pro Patria Medal warrant, Government Gazette No. 5171 (25 Jun 1976), Rule 5, as amended by GG No. 5575 (3 Jun 1977); discontinued by GG No. 25213 (25 Jul 2003, Schedule corrected by GG No. 26778, 17 Sep 2004) for service on/after 27 Apr 2003. Gazette extracts: https://rohsa.co.za/award.php?id=24
Notes

Son of Mr. Pieter Philipus Bartlomeas Badenhorst and husband of Mrs. Marietta Badenhorst, of Hlobane. Was a Natal and South Africa Judo champion

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 08 Dec 2017: 66206756KT Sergeant Johannes Cornelius Badenhorst, Regiment North Natal, Three Citizen Force / Commando members KIA when their patrol walked into a SWAPO/PLAN ambush near Ruacana. Same incident as Badenhorst, Kotze and Kruger. He was 28. ROH unit was Northern Natal Commando. DATE DISCREPANCY 25 Aug 2026: pantser.cmvo.org.za's SADF deaths PDF gives this person's Sterf (date of death) as "28 12 77" (DD MM YY) against the same ServiceNo (66206756KT) and name -- differs from this record's DateDeath (1977-12-08). Not overwritten, flagged for reference.

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