Identity
Person No.
31093
Old ROH no.
706
Service No.
89274815BG
Last Name
First Name
Efstratios
Initials
E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, on Potchefstroom-Westonaria Road
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Kladis, of Pretoria
Research notes
26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "8 South African Infantry Battalion" → Training Centre (SAWGP Unit); Regiment "SAMS Training Unit" → South African Medical Service (SAWGP Regiment).
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
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 111-113 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 3
I remember this well. All these guys were in my unit. We were split up to work at different hospitals during hospital phase of our ops medic training. The week before this happened I was at the hospital that L/CPL Kladis was overseeing. After our week had completed we went back to Jo'burg Gen and I remember being told that there had been an accident and that eight of our guys were either dead or seriously injured. I can't remember for sure but I think that PTE Gordon (also on this site) was taken in this accident. I remember going to funerals each day and being part of the military representation at L/CPL Kladis's. After that we always sang the song that PTE Pohl had written for us to sing as we ran. "Medics of '92" Rob Pullen WithHeld
I only found out about what happened in 1993 when I went to visit some of the guys that joined on for short Service in 1992. Cpl Mike Land told me that
L/Cpl Kladis had died in a car accident along with
Dedications
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