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Identity
Person No.
29587
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Breytenbach 23
First Name
Piet M
Initials
P M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1980 (±1 yr) 67
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
18 November 2002 118
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident 255
Died in Freak Accident, was busy with the identification of unexploded aircraft-mounted bombs and ammunition at the Roodewal bombing range outside Polokwane (Pietersburg) when a mortar exploded after he had picked it up. He was part of the clearing crew based at the range, which was used by the SAAF
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Warrant Officer Class I
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
83 Technical Supply Depot 3
Defence Force
SANDF 1,027
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
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
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026: ServiceNo 81309981BT cleared -- the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF lists that number under "BREYTENBACH, PIETER" (RFN, Sterf 24 12 87), matching PersonNumber 29586 (Breytenbach, DateDeath 1987-12-24) by surname and exact date, not this record. Original value: "81309981BT". Left as an unresolved collision otherwise -- this correction is specific to this one PDF-confirmed case, not a general claim this record's other data is wrong.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Air Force".

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