Kudumo, Patrick

Identity

Person No.

31191

Old ROH no.

759

Service No.

78930476SP

Last Name

Kudumo 3

First Name

Patrick

Initials

P

Date of Birth

Unknown

Est. Birth Year

1959 (±1 yr) 442

Age at Death

25

Death Record

Date of Death

04 March 1984 109

Cause code

SHOT 546

Shot

Cause of Death

Died in Shooting Incident 289

Died in Shooting Incident, accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier while on duty in Northern Owamboland

Military Service

Branch

Army

Rank

Rifleman

Regiment

902 Battalion 1

Unit

902 Battalion 1

Defence Force

SADF 3,832

South African Defence Force

Location

Country

South Africa 23,874

Locality

Gauteng 9,374

Cemetery

SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926

Grave Reference

Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612

Memorial

SADF Wall of Remembrance

Location

On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria

Address

Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa

Coordinates

-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap

Panel

Not listed against a numbered panel

On the panel

Position on the panel will be added with photographs

Notes

Son of Mrs. G. Kudumo

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 04 Mar 2024: 78930476SP Rifleman Patrick Kudumo, 902 Battalion SWATF, accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier while on duty in Northern Owamboland, age 25. Regiment already 902 Battalion. Unit was 117 SAI (anachronistic) — corrected to 902 Battalion (new UnitID 4188). Cause already matched. | Also Last Post 04 Mar 2021: 78930476SP Rifleman Patrick Kudumo, 902 Battalion SWATF, accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier in Northern Owamboland, age 25.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.
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

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 04 Mar 2024: 78930476SP Rifleman Patrick Kudumo, 902 Battalion SWATF, accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier while on duty in Northern Owamboland, age 25. Regiment already 902 Battalion. Unit was 117 SAI (anachronistic) — corrected to 902 Battalion (new UnitID 4188). Cause already matched.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 04 Mar 2021: 78930476SP Rifleman Patrick Kudumo from 902 Battalion SWATF was accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier while on duty in Northern Owamboland. He was 25.
SADF.info Border Roll of Honour open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
South African War Graves Project open source ↗
The War in Angola open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 129-131 of 143: confirmed, no changes.

Stories 1

by Harry Truss on 15 May 2006 · via source

This person might be Fanny Truss b 1855, daughter of George Truss and Mary Lamb. She was a nurse, possibly nursing troops during the Boer war.

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Kudumo , Patrick (P)