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Identity
Person No.
31811
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Child Of
Initials
C O
Age at Death
12
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, in Atlas Oryk #1215, at Kroonstad. Ten people died and 14 were injured in the crash outside Kroonstad. Members of the SA Army, the Kroonstad area commandos, SAP and the SAAF were busy with a crime prevention exercise, Operation Tsoha II, based at a temporary base at Bossiespruit. This flight was one of the short flights that took support personnel on a "thank you" flight. This flight was the third one the Oryx had done that day. The wreckage was found along the Vals River
Military Service
Rank
Civilian
Regiment
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
Unknown
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
Unit History
Role at time of death
Airborne light infantry (paratroops)
Status
Regular Force
Part of
Still the SANDF’s only full-time parachute battalion. 44 Parachute Brigade was downsized to 44 Parachute Regiment in 1999.
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '96830435' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 31810 to 31812 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (31810, Molebatsi, Espa Ramotsielwa (R L)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

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