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Identity
Person No.
31223
Service No.
76356120
Last Name
First Name
Leon
Initials
L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,632
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, between Vryberg and Lahotla. The accident happened 30 km out of Vryburg when the Bedford burst a tyre and crashed. He was a passenger in the back
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,830
South African Defence Force
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Field Engineers
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Formed 1973 from 17 Field Squadron (relocated from Potchefstroom to Bethlehem, 1967); listed as the primary deployment unit of the SA Army Engineer Formation's regular units.
Notes

Son of Mrs. I. J. Bosman, of Strand

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 31 Aug 2026: Spr L. Lambert, 2 Field Engineer Regiment, attached to 5 Military Works Unit at the Army Battle School, Lohatla -- accidentally killed when the Bedford truck he was travelling in as a passenger overturned 30km outside Vryburg on the Lohatla-Vryburg road after a front tyre burst, age 18. Matches ROH record.
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "2 Field 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".

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