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Identity
Person No.
31021
Service No.
77582203
Last Name
First Name
Douglas
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Motor Vehicle Accident, on the Whittlesea - Queenstown road
Military Service
Branch
Navy
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Notes

Husband of S. M. Keel, of Pretoria

Research notes

Regiment was wrongly set to "Special Forces" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026: every other sailor recorded under SAS Protea (a South African Navy vessel) correctly has Corps = South African Navy and no Regiment; nothing about this MVA death indicates a Special Forces connection.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Navy". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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