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Identity
Person No.
30763
Old ROH no.
608
Service No.
66338310BT
Last Name
Hugo 15
First Name
Wilhelm
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1950 (±1 yr) 232
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
25 March 1977 147
Cause code
ACC 1,584
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident 255
Died in Freak Accident, at Keetmanshoop. A goods train loaded with iron ore struck a stationary troop train at the Keetmanshoop station
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Regiment Westelike Provinsie 9
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
Locality
Western Cape 2,137
Cemetery
SOMERSET WEST CEMETERY 6
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 3
Coordinates
-34.08668, 18.8422 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
71 Motorised Brigade
Regiment Westelike Provinsie, raised by the Union Defence Force 1 April 1934 as part of a post-Depression rebuilding program. Renamed General Jan Smuts Regiment.
Notes

Husband of Mrs. Y. A. F. Hugo, of Benoni. On Keetmanshoop Station Memorial

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment Westelike Provinsie" (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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