Son of Mrs. A. Matthee. On Mossel Bay War Memorial, Western Cape
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2024: 83069864CK Private Johannes Ricardo Matthee, 16 Maintenance Unit, died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Grootfontein, age 21. Unit and Grootfontein already matched. HTML apostrophe entity corrected. | Also Last Post 21 Jul 2026: 83069864CK Private Johannes Ricardo Matthee, 16 Maintenance Unit, accidental discharge at Grootfontein, age 21.
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".
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2024: 83069864CK Private Johannes Ricardo Matthee, 16 Maintenance Unit, died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Grootfontein, age 21. Unit and Grootfontein already matched. HTML apostrophe entity corrected.
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2026: 83069864CK Private Johannes Ricardo Matthee from 16 Maintenance Unit died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Grootfontein. He was 21.
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
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SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
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War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 129-131 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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