Identity
Person No.
31086
Service No.
75329257KV
Last Name
First Name
Philip Kenneth
Initials
P K
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died in Pretoria in a non-military related incident
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Part of
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Son of Mr. A. K. Kirstein, of Delareyville.
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 30 Jun 2026: 75329257KV Lieutenant Philip Kenneth Kirstein, Nelspruit Commando, accidentally killed in a non-military related incident in Pretoria, age 26. Graham spells Kennith; ROH Kenneth kept. Service number suffix KV added from Graham.
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
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 30 Jun 2026: Nelspruit Commando, non-military incident Pretoria (Kennith vs Kenneth).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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