Identity
Person No.
31178
Service No.
74426834PE
Last Name
First Name
Michael Frederick
Initials
M F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,203
Drowned
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident, drowned, boat rolled over during exercise with NSRI on the Umkomaas River
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class II
Regiment
Corps
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
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
Role at time of death
Field Engineers
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Listed among the SA Army Engineer Formation's regular/closed units; exact formation date not given in the source. Needs further research.
Notes
Son of Mr. F. C. Kruger
Research notes
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "1 Engineer Regiment" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
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
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