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Identity
Person No.
30697
Service No.
7864631CA
Last Name
Herbst 23
First Name
Carol Anne
Initials
C A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1976 (±1 yr) 106
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
01 January 2000 263
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident 289
Died in Shooting Incident, at Umkomaas Comdo, shot by a disgruntled member with an R4 rifle
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Mrs
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Unit
Umkomaas Commando 2
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
KwaZulu-Natal 1,589
Cemetery
PIETERMARITZBURG MOTH GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE 3
Grave Reference
Ashes scattered at MOTH Garden of Remembrance, PMB. 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 9
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

N-O-K given as Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Fred McHattie (or McHatty)

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, found while checking the civilian convention prompted by Hamilton (30605) in Mike Sandham's 16 Sep omissions mail: this record carried Corps "South African Infantry Corps" despite a CA (civilian) service number, and Unit2 "Air Force" against a Regiment of "South African Commandos". Both CLEARED -- the Corps is the same civilian category error as Hamilton's, and the Unit2 is junk from the known systemic bug (UnitID2 was NULL). Rank "Mrs" left as-is pending the same convention decision.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 51 against this record's 24. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.

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