Identity
Person No.
30027
Old ROH no.
331
Service No.
74281734BG
Last Name
First Name
Jan Joachim Jaobus
Initials
J J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
FF 52
Friendly fire
Cause of Death
Died in Friendly Fire Incident, during an ambush. Just after 2am on that day, four members from the 4 SAI were killed by friendly fire at Okalongo, when a soldier watching the rear of the ambush position suddenly turned around and opened fire on his fellow soldiers
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Unit History
Notes
Son of Mr. J. L. de Vos
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
Citations
Unknown
External References
- 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), page 25 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 2
J.de Vos was van 4SAI. Grensdiens 1977 in Ovambo by Umungelome Basis. Hy en drie ander Sers Furstenburg, kpl Muller en Lourens het omgekom Sept/Okt 1977 deur eiemagte se vuur. Ek dink de Vos was van Swellendam se omgewing as ek reg onthou.
29 Sep 1977: Four members from 4 SAI were killed in a friendly fire incident at Okalongo when a soldier who was watching the rear of the ambush position suddenly turned around and opened fire on his fellow soldiers. The soldier in question subsequently appeared in the Windhoek Supreme Court on a charge of murder but was medically diagnosed as having acute schizophrenia and subsequently declared medically unfit to stand trial. The casualties in this unfortunate incident were: 69206464PE Sergeant Jan Pieter Albertus Furstenburg. He was 24 74413659BB Corporal Leslie Muller. He was 19. 74281734BG Rifleman Jan Joachim Jacobus de Vos. He was 18 74382862BG Rifleman Cornelius Johannes Lourens. He was 19 Graham Du Toit
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