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Identity
Person No.
30894
Old ROH no.
648
Service No.
P/48888
Last Name
Jones 107
First Name
Leon Loubser
Initials
L L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1942 (±1 yr) 128
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
08 September 1962 100
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,517
Died in Aircraft Accident, AT-6 Harvard #7361, struck ground during low level flight and crashed at Bezuitenhoudskraal, near Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Candidate Officer
Regiment
4 Squadron 69
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,821
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,859
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
THABA TSHWANE (OLD No.1) MILITARY CEMETERY 424
Grave Reference
Ashes at the MOTH Garden of Remembrance 1
Coordinates
-25.80165, 28.12721 OSM
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Air Force - Squadrons
Notes

Son of Brigadier Albertus Loubser Jones, DFC, of 314 Retief Avenue, Lyttelton. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "4 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
8 Sep 2026: Graham du Toit's Last Post dates this death 08 Sep 1977; this record's own stored DateDeath is 1962-09-08 (name, ServiceNo P/48888, rank, unit, and cause all otherwise match exactly). Flagged, not changed -- unclear which source has the wrong year.
8 Sep 2026: Mike Sandham independently flagged PN 48954 as a possible duplicate of this record -- confirmed: same Name/Initials/ServiceNo (P/48888 vs P48888) and same DateDeath (1962-09-08), and 48954's own DateBirth (1942-04-24) matches this record's EstBirthYear (1942). This resolves yesterday's flagged date conflict with Graham's Last Post: 1962 is correct (independently sourced twice), Graham's "1977" was a transcription error. PN 48954 itself flagged as a duplicate for merge review, not merged.

Citations
Unknown
External References
Stories 1
by Graham Du Toit on 08 September 2014 · via source
08 Sep 1977: P/48888 Candidate Officer Leon Loubser Jones from 4 Squadron was killed when his AT-6 Harvard, Serial No. 7361 struck rising ground and crashed while carrying out low level flight near Pretoria. He was 20.
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