Identity
Person No.
30158
Old ROH no.
391
Service No.
05572722PE
Last Name
First Name
Charles Frederick
Initials
C F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, near Bandolierkop, in Canadair CL13B Sabre #366
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"O" Coy, Mortars
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Son of Mr. F. J. du Toit, of Springs. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "1 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
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 6 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 2
Charles du Toit was killed in an accident at Bandelierskop near Louis Trichardt in 1968 when he was 21 years old. His parents (Faan and Helen) were family friends - I was 12 at the time, so the memory is somewhat limited. His grave should be somewhere on the East Rand where his father was either mine manager or inspector of mines at the time. He was engaged to Mari? (I think) at the time and drove a Triumph Spitfire. As far as I know it was an accident in training when the wing of his aircraft touched or was touched by another and the craft went out of control and fell. Andr?
'The aircraft was doing a 1v1 exercise above cloud and while trying to outmanoeuvre the aircraft on his tail entered cloud with lots of bank on and did not recover. The other aircraft recovered to level visual flight and called Charles to recover without any response. Charles hit the ground after exiting the low cloud base in a steep nose down attitude near Bandelierskop'. (Courtesy of Graham Rochat) Johan Meyer
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