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Identity
Person No.
31915
Service No.
95071809
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
M S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died at Nyanga, shot by unknown parties, while off duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
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
Infantry (Motorised)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Infantry (Motorised) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox.
Notes

ref. SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("4 South African Infantry Battalion") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 5 Sep 2026: Graham gives only initials "M S Mketo" -- the existing FirstName "Marius Johannes" only half-matches (Johannes would be "J", not "S"). Same systemic FirstName-contamination pattern as Mouton/Mafole above; cleared, not guessed. Also NOT resolved: Graham gives age 26 vs this record's existing 20 -- flagged, not overwritten.
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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