Identity
Person No.
31240
Service No.
08358855KV
Last Name
First Name
Michael Harold
Initials
M H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
49
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, shot 5 times by fellow SANDF member during an argument about rations
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class I
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SANDF 1,021
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
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
Husband of Mrs. Penny A. Laue, of Greytown.
Citations
Unknown
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