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Identity
Person No.
30043
Old ROH no.
341
Service No.
77012292PE
Last Name
Dekker 1
First Name
Nicolaas Marthinus
Initials
N M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1930 (±1 yr) 76
Age at Death
48
Death Record
Date of Death
23 November 1978 354
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident 255
Died in Freak Accident, killed by shrapnel at Potchefstroom Test Range when a G2 140mm Medium Gun High Explosive projectile exploded in the cannon barrel during testing
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Ordnance Services Corps 95
Later renamed South African Ordnance Service Corps
Unit
31 Battalion 34
Later renamed 201 Battalion (1980)
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,821
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,859
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
ROODEPOORT NEW CEMETERY 7
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 3
Memorial
1978 SAA (Castle–Havenga, Mennigke–Wolfgang)
Names on 1978 SAA Castle-Wolfgang
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
1978 SAA Castle-Wolfgang
On the panel
1978 Army. Left column. 9th name from the top (Dekker N.M.)
Notes

Husband of Mrs. Rosina Elisabeth Dekker (nee Hattingh), of Links-Regs Street, Potchefstroom. He had a son and 2 daughters. Possibly buried in Zimbabwe. ref. "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

Research notes

SADF Wall of Remembrance (Voortrekker Monument): named on photograph "1978 SAA (Castle–Havenga, Mennigke–Wolfgang)". 1978 Army. Left column. 9th name from the top (Dekker N.M.).
21 Sep 2026: Unit corrected 201 Battalion -> 31 Battalion. This man died on 1978-11-23, before the unit took the name 201 Battalion: it was designated 31 Battalion until the South West Africa Territory Force was established on 1 August 1980, a rename this roll already recorded in OrgEntityAlias. Prompted by Mike Sandham's correction of 20 Sep 2026 on Shangweni (32903), applied across every 1980 SWATF rename. The later name is not wrong as a way of identifying the unit today -- sources compiled afterwards routinely use it -- but it is not the name this man served under.

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