Jansen Van Vuuren, Frans Hendrik

Identity

Person No.

30848

Service No.

81327694BG

Last Name

Jansen Van Vuuren 5

First Name

Frans Hendrik

Initials

F H

Date of Birth

Unknown

Est. Birth Year

1965 (±1 yr) 279

Age at Death

19

Death Record

Date of Death

27 September 1984 130

Cause code

MVA 2,632

Motor vehicle accident

Cause of Death

Died in motor vehicle accident 1,765

Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Groot Marico, Samil tyre burst and rolled

Military Service

Branch

Army

Rank

Gunner

Regiment

Unknown

Corps

South African Armoured Corps 438

Unit

2 Special Service Battalion 51

Defence Force

SADF 3,830

South African Defence Force

Location

Country

South Africa 23,873

Locality

Gauteng 9,374

Cemetery

VANDERBIJLPARK CEMETERY 22

Grave Reference

Grave A. 4475. 1

Unit History

Role at time of death

Armour (Armoured Car)

Status

Permanent Force (Regular)

Part of

Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Units

Re-established 1 October 1973 out of C Squadron 1 SSB, itself formed as C Squadron of 2 Armoured Car Regiment in February 1962 and renamed 22 December 1966. Regimental HQ and C Squadron at Zeerust; D Squadron detached to 2 SAI at Walvis Bay. Squadrons served in Namibia and Angola from 1974: B, C and D Squadrons on Operation Savannah, 8 October 1975 to 31 January 1976, and later Operations Protea, Daisy, Hooper and Modular. On 25 January 1988 it became the first unit in South Africa granted the Right of Free Admission to a coloured community, Henryville. Most of the men on this roll who point at 2 SSB belong to this period. Also took part in Operation Adding on 10 February 1988, the intervention restoring the Bophuthatswana government after the coup attempt against President Mangope. Equipped with the Ratel IFV and, from May 1990, the Rooikat; received national colours 30 June 1990.

Notes

Son of Mr. Francois Wiid Jansen Van Vuuren and Mrs. Catharina Cornelia Jansen Van Vuuren. He had 2 younger brothers, Francois and Stephanus.

Research notes

MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48754 ("Jansen van Vuuren") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (81327694BG) and DateDeath (1984-09-27), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day.
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".
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 27 Sep 2026: "81327694BG Trooper Frans Hendrik Jansen van Vuuren. He was 19." Confirms the record, which already carries the burst-tyre account in full. The other man is Jeams Andries Solomon Theodorus Randall (32633).

Citations

Unknown

External References

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 27 Sep 2026
South African War Graves Project open source ↗

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Jansen Van Vuuren , Frans Hendrik (F H)