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No photograph available — remembrance poppy
Identity
Person No.
30885
Old ROH no.
2101
Service No.
78321718BG
Last Name
Jolliffe 3
First Name
Rory Clyde
Initials
R C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1962 (±1 yr) 352
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
26 July 1981 121
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,765
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, in Northern Natal. Water tanker left road and rolled down mountainside
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Jozini Military Base 3
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

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Jolliffe

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Jul 2024: 78321718BG Corporal Rory Clyde Joliffe, Jozini Military Base, killed when their military vehicle overturned near Jozini, age 19. ROH surname is Jolliffe. Unit was 11th Regt. — corrected to Jozini Military Base (regiment already Jozini). ROH cause is water tanker left the road and rolled down a mountainside in Northern Natal (not overwritten). Same water-tanker rollover near Jozini as Jolliffe R.C. PN 30885 and Matenjwa S. PN 31677.
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
  • Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
    Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Jul 2024: 78321718BG Corporal Rory Clyde Joliffe, Jozini Military Base, killed when their military vehicle overturned near Jozini, age 19. ROH surname is Jolliffe. Unit was 11th Regt. — corrected to Jozini Military Base (regiment already Jozini). ROH cause is water tanker left the road and rolled down a mountainside in Northern Natal (not overwritten). Same water-tanker rollover near Jozini as Jolliffe R.C. PN 30885 and Matenjwa S. PN 31677.
  • South African War Graves Project open source ↗
  • The War in Angola open source ↗
    War In Angola Roll of Honour, pages 93-94: gives name "Jolliffe C.P." vs ROH "Jolliffe R C" (SN 78321718BG matches exactly) — confirmed match, not overwritten.
Stories 1
by Gerard Collingwood on 19 October 2010 · via source
I'm not sure that the initials are correct for this entry, I was a good friend of Rory Clyde Jolliffe, a corporal who was killed in a military vehicle accident near Jozini on 26 July 1981. I can find no other reference to a Jolliffe in this time frame. He was apparently in a water tanker that left the road and went down a mountainside, as far as I can remember.
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