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Identity
Person No.
30802
Old ROH no.
621
Service No.
72294887BT
Last Name
Jacobs 166
First Name
Andries Christiaan
Initials
A C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1957 (±1 yr) 434
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
05 June 1984 108
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Durban Light Infantry 30
Later renamed 1st Infantry (Durban Light Infantry) (1912)
Unit
Regiment Port Natal 2
Formerly Durban Light Infantry
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY 592
Grave Reference
Grave 1266 1
Coordinates
-25.78214, 28.12179 OSM
Memorial
South West Africa/Angola 1976-1989 and Deployments 1994- Source: kznpr.co.za (KZN: A Photographic Historical Record)
Names on Border War / Deployments
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Chapel (Chapel of St Michael & St George)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
5 DLI Avenue, Durban, South Africa
Coordinates
-29.84722, 31.01583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Border War / Deployments
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force / Army Conventional Reserve
Part of
84 Motorised Brigade
Part of
84 Motorised Brigade
Became a mechanised infantry regiment at an undocumented date within this era — no source found dates the transition.
Notes

Husband of Mrs. J. D. Jacobs

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "35 Battalion" → Regiment (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
John Dovey, 1 Sep 2026 (Durban Light Infantry Chapel memorial panel review): Regiment/Unit corrected -- the chapel's SWA/Angola plaque marks this person "(RPN)", i.e. Regiment Port Natal, which was amalgamated into the Durban Light Infantry. Regiment set to Durban Light Infantry, Unit set to Regiment Port Natal.
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".

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