Identity
Person No.
30171
Service No.
72283484PE
Last Name
First Name
Johannes Jacobus
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, while serving in Rhodesia. His Section was attached to a convoy who were responsible for checking the road for land mines and at sunset, set up a Temporary Base (TB) for the night. Just before 08h00 the following morning, the TB was attacked by a numerically superior force of ZANU insurgents and came under heavy small-arms, mortar and RPG-7 rocket fire. He was wounded in the neck by shrapnel and although treated for his wounds, he succumbed through loss of blood a short while later before he could be evacuated
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Son of Mr. J. J. Du Toit
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), pages 36-41 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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