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Identity
Person No.
30799
Old ROH no.
620
Service No.
80642317BW
Last Name
Jack 10
First Name
Christiaan
Initials
C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1959 (±1 yr) 442
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
21 July 1985 110
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,765
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Oshikuku
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Catering Corps 13
Unit
32 (Buffalo) Battalion insignia 32 (Buffalo) Battalion 28
Later renamed 32 Battalion
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

N-O-K given as Guardian Mrs. A. Jack

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2024: Rifleman Christiaan Jack, Army Catering Corps, killed in a Military Vehicle Accident at Oshikuku, age 26. Graham service number 806422317BW has nine digits; ROH 80642317BW (eight-digit SADF form) left. Regiment already South African Catering Corps. Unit 32 (Buffalo) Battalion left (ACC attached). Cause already Oshikuku MVA. | Also Last Post 21 Jul 2026: Rifleman Christiaan Jack, Army Catering Corps, MVA at Oshikuku, age 26. Nine-digit SN 806422317BW vs ROH 80642317BW already noted on 21 Jul 2024.
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Catering Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
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 ServiceNo 806422317BW against this record's 80642317BW. The two numbers differ by only 1 digit(s), so one is a transcription slip -- but nothing here says which, and this record is not part of any shared-number run. Not resolved. Flagged, not changed.
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
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External References
Stories 1
on 25 November 2002 · via source
NASA Pretoria. Lord Roberts' Papers, Volume 10 ff. 121-134. (WO 105/11 T/40/22):Captain C. G. Henty, Officer Commanding Troops, Bultfontein, to Chief Staff Officer, Bloemfontein. Bultfontein, 5 October 1900. Fight at Hammones Fontein Farm near Bultfontein [Orange River Colony]. ? six mounted police under Assistant Commissioner Thomas. ? by this time Lieutenant Thomas was mortally wounded ? Lieutenant H. A. Thomas, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, Assistant Commissioner Bultfontein, killed, (shot through the heart). I much regret the loss of Lieutenant Thomas. He was deservedly popular and at his funeral all classes exhibited unfeigned grief and much sorrow has been expressed by farmers in the district on hearing of his death. NASA Pretoria. Lord Roberts' Papers Volume 10 ff. 121-134. (WO 105/11 T/40/22): Lieutenant-General T. K. Kenny, Commanding Troops to the Military Secretary. Bloemfontein, 12 October 1900. The losses on this occasion, I regret particularly that of the death of Lieutenant Thomas, Aide de Camp, a very promising officer. T. K Kenny, Lieutenant General Commanding Troops. Unknown Unknown
Dedications 1
by Randolph Jones on 21 September 2002 · via source
Ceylon Contingent Memorial This memorial was erected opposite the 'Mahamaluwa' (Esplanade) in commemoration of the services of the Ceylon Contingent in South Africa, 1900 - 1902 and unveiled by Field Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, K. G., G. C. M. G. March 18, 1907." In memoriam - Lieut. Arthur, A. Thomas, W. Max Kelly, C. Campion, Q. M., St. Cheyne, A. S. Hopper, K. Hamilton, Claude C. Bell, N. W. Smellie. This Memorial was designed by Mrs. Thomas, wife of Edward Hector Le Marchant Thomas, a brother of Lieutenant Thomas. It represents a trooper of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry giving the signal 'enemy is in sight.' This statue was pulled down in an undergraduate protest in the 1960's and never re-instated. Now this Memorial is kept in the compound of the Military Headquarters in Kandy.