Identity
Person No.
29517
Old ROH no.
124
Service No.
78554656BT
Last Name
First Name
George Murray
Initials
G M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, a follow up operation, after an attack on farmers in the Transvaal / Rhodesian border town. The contact with three ANC insurgents took place after an attack on motorists just outside of Alldays in the Northern Transvaal
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
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.
Awards
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. and Mrs. H. F. Boshoff.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 54-56 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 2
Rfn G.M. Boshoff - Witbank Commando was killed in a follow up operation (after an attack on farmers in the Transvaal/Rhodesian border town of Alldays.
Rfn George Boshoff was a member of the Witbank Commando and was doing his first three month camp after completing his two year national service. On 10 November 1983 he was part of a SADF / SAP pursuit tracking four heavily armed insurgents who had crossed the border from Zimbabwe into Northern Transvaal. The insurgents had attacked a local farmer and his elderly grandmother in their vehicle the evening before, and both were fortunate to escape with their lives. The SADF cornered the four insurgents on a farm some 20 kilometres outside of Alldays, and in the ensuing fire fight all four insurgents were killed, but unfortunately so was George Boshoff. His death was doubly tragic for his family as he was only 18 days away from completing his camp. Also, his older brother had been killed in a vehicle accident some three years previously. (Information extracted from news report in the Cape Times - dated 11 November 1983) Peter
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