Identity
Person No.
29656
Old ROH no.
181
Service No.
70434790KT
Last Name
First Name
Willem Petrus
Initials
W P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,625
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Pedestrian Accident, killed when run over by a civilian vehicle that failed to stop at a military roadblock near Upington
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
"D" Squadron
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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.
Notes
Husband of Mrs. E. Burger
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 08 Dec 2017: 70434790KT Rifleman Willem Petrus Burger, Gordonia Commando, Two Gordonia Commando members killed when a civilian vehicle failed to stop at a military roadblock near Upington. Same incident as Burger and van der Merwe. He was 23. ROH age is 33 (not overwritten; 70xx KT in 1987 fits ~33 better than 23).
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 08 Dec 2017: 70434790KT Rifleman Willem Petrus Burger, Gordonia Commando, Two Gordonia Commando members killed when a civilian vehicle failed to stop at a military roadblock near Upington. Same incident as Burger and van der Merwe. He was 23. ROH age is 33 (not overwritten; 70xx KT in 1987 fits ~33 better than 23).
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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 120-122 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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