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Identity
Person No.
29588
Old ROH no.
149
Service No.
70310743BT
Last Name
Bricknell 1
First Name
Gary Arthur
Initials
G A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1955 (±1 yr) 397
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
25 March 1977 147
Cause code
ACC 1,584
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident 255
Died in Freak Accident, at Keetmanshoop. A goods train loaded with iron ore struck a stationary troop train at the Keetmanshoop station
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Regiment Westelike Provinsie 9
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Cremated - Ashes in a niche at the Plumstead Anglican Church 2
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
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
71 Motorised Brigade
Regiment Westelike Provinsie, raised by the Union Defence Force 1 April 1934 as part of a post-Depression rebuilding program. Renamed General Jan Smuts Regiment.
Notes

Son of Mr. E. A. Bricknell, of Plumstead. He played cricket for Western Province. On Keetmanshoop Station Memorial

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment Westelike Provinsie" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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