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Identity
Person No.
30548
Service No.
69328243
Last Name
Grobler 71
First Name
Johannes Hermanus
Initials
J H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1953 (±1 yr) 317
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
09 October 1982 175
Cause code
MVA 2,631
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Private Vehicle Accident 176
Died in Private Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer II
Regiment
Regiment Christiaan Beyers 8
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
North West 534
Cemetery
BRITS (LANGBERG) CEMETERY 19
Grave Reference
Grave 672 1
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Regiment Christiaan Beyers, established 1939 as the second battalion of Regiment Botha, later separated into its own reserve regiment. Renamed Mapungubwe Regiment.
Notes

Son of Mr. J. S. Grobler, of Brits.

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment Christiaan Beyers" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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