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Identity
Person No.
30008
Old ROH no.
322
Service No.
66522707BT
Last Name
De Swardt 6
First Name
Marius Pieter
Initials
M P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1950 (±1 yr) 232
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
05 October 1976 85
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident 290
Died in Shooting Incident, at Grootfontein
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Regiment De la Rey 20
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,823
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,861
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
Unit History
Attached To
5th Reconnaissance Regiment
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
82 Mechanised Brigade
Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
Notes

Son of Frederick Petrus Willem and Anna Maria Petronella de Swardt. Husband of Mrs. Janetta Louisa Francina Coetzer

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment De la Rey" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.

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