Son of Mr. & Mrs. Mackenzie
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 12 Jun 2024: 86274743BG Private Clive Dean MacKenzie, 1 Maintenance Unit, killed in a freak accident while offloading ammunition onto a train from a Kwêvoël 100 parked on a low-bed trailer at Bulkop Railway Station, Lohatla, Postmasburg. During a tea break he climbed out of the gunner's hatch, grabbed an overhead train cable to steady himself; residual charge rendered him unconscious; he fell and broke his neck, age 18. Unit already 1 Maintenance Unit. Electric-shock / Bulkop account filled. MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48648 ("Mackenzie") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (86274743BG) and DateDeath (1989-06-12), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day.
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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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 12 Jun 2024: 86274743BG Private Clive Dean MacKenzie, 1 Maintenance Unit, killed in a freak accident while offloading ammunition onto a train from a Kwêvoël 100 parked on a low-bed trailer at Bulkop Railway Station, Lohatla, Postmasburg. During a tea break he climbed out of the gunner's hatch, grabbed an overhead train cable to steady himself; residual charge rendered him unconscious; he fell and broke his neck, age 18. Unit already 1 Maintenance Unit. Electric-shock / Bulkop account filled.
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