Identity
Person No.
29749
Old ROH no.
34733
Service No.
95245411PV
Last Name
First Name
Nicolaas Johannes
Initials
N J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,626
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Gcalima, passenger in buffel that overturned
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SANDF 1,021
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mechanised Infantry (combined-arms battalion group)
Status
Regular Force
Part of
Formed 1978 as Battle Group Juliet (SWAPO counter-insurgency, Ovamboland); formally named 61 Mechanised Battalion (Group) January 1979; disbanded 2005 at Lohatla. "Battalion Group" reflects its integral combined-arms structure: two Ratel-20-mounted infantry companies, an armoured car/tank squadron (Eland/Ratel-90, later Olifant), an integral G5 howitzer artillery battery, an 81mm mortar platoon, an anti-tank platoon, and an anti-aircraft troop -- not merely units attached for one operation. Fought at the Battle of the Lomba River, 1987. No evidence found that it was ever subordinated to or redesignated as a "61 Mechanised Brigade" -- see the note on that separate OrgEntity record.
Notes
Son of Mr. K. Claasen and Mrs. F. Claasen, of Oudtshoorn.
Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 1
Rfn Claasen died in a Buffel accident whilst on township duties during the 1995-1996 Margate Massacre. He died on the accident scene and were later buried at his Home town in Dyselsdorp. The driver had to leave the road due to a taxi that tried to pull them off the road, the buffel overturned and Rfn Claasen ended up under neath the vechile. Andre Andre.Moolman@za.sabmiller .com
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