Identity
Person No.
31624
Service No.
P1/41345
Last Name
First Name
Pieter Jacobus
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, crashed at Potchefstroom Artillery range during training, in Taylorcraft Auster AOP Mk 6 #5410
Military Service
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
Notes
Son of Mrs. Maritz, of Craighall Park, Johannesburg
Research notes
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "3 Field Regiment (Transvaal Horse Artillery)" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged. | Gunners Association RoH lists them (Operational Duty Pre 1963 1956 Captain P.J. Maritz) - https://www.gunners.org.za/home-2/roll-of-honour/
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
-
Gunners' Association of South Africa Roll of Honour
open source ↗
Operational Duty Pre 1963 1956 Captain P.J. Maritz
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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