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Identity
Person No.
30128
Service No.
72462153
Last Name
Du Plessis 173
First Name
Izak Gabriel
Initials
I G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1958 (±1 yr) 437
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
31 August 1980 97
Cause code
MVA 2,631
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motorcycle accident 22
Died in motorcycle accident, while on duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Noordvaal Commando 2
Formerly Orkney Commando
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
North West 534
Cemetery
KLERKSDORP (NEW) CEMETERY 39
Grave Reference
Grave 943 1
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System category
Part of
Group 30
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

Son of Mr. J. J. du Plessis, of Stilfontein.

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 31 Aug 2026: Rfn I.G. Du Plessis, Noordvaal Commando, killed in a private motorcycle accident while on official military duty, age 24 (ROH has age 22 -- not changed, single-year-class discrepancy). Matches ROH record. Note: ServiceNo 72462153 is also held by the unrelated PersonNumber 30129 (Du Plessis, Izak Jacobus, Central Flying School, died 1953) -- pre-existing collision across very different eras, not resolved here.
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".

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