Identity
Person No.
30761
Old ROH no.
607
Service No.
82702705PP
Last Name
First Name
Raymond Roderick
Initials
R R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, near Port Elizabeth, in Atlas MB326M Impala Mk I #550
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Husband of Mrs. D. M. B. Hughes. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "6 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
Citations
Unknown
External References
-
SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- 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 10 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 1
On 05 May 82 Lt Ray Hughes was on a training flight near Port Elizabeth. Bad weather and poor visibility caused Lt Hughes to mistake hangar lights and perimeter lights for the runway and both pilots only ejected when the plane started hitting the trees to the South of the Port Elizabeth airport.? The instructor, Capt Robbie Turner survived due to his parachute snagging on trees and slowing down his fall.? Lt Hughes unfortunately fell along an open pathway and had nothing to break his speed as they had ejected with a downward vector outside the envelope of the zero zero ejection seats.
Dedications
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