Identity
Person No.
29311
Service No.
82529793
Last Name
First Name
Wynand Johannes Jacobus
Initials
W J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,625
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in a private vehicle accident at Brakpan while on an evening pass. He was attending a camp at the time
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unknown
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Part of
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.
Notes
Son of Mrs. G. B. Le Gras, of Boksburg.
Citations
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