Identity
Person No.
29613
Old ROH no.
165
Service No.
77875029RV
Last Name
First Name
Nicolaas Carel Martinus
Initials
N C M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 751
Natural causes
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
452 Parachute Battalion
Defence Force
SADF 3,815
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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
Husand of Mrs. E. Bronkhorst
Citations
Unknown
External References
-
SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
-
The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 81-82 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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