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Identity
Person No.
32000
Old ROH no.
986
Service No.
75584912PC
Last Name
Morris 27
First Name
Rudolf
Initials
R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1958 (±1 yr) 437
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
17 September 1987 108
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died from a stab wound received at the Touwsriver Training Area 1
Died from a stab wound received at the Touwsriver Training Area, following an altercation with another member
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Cape Corps 1,518
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Unit
1 SA Cape Corps, Training Unit 4
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
South African Defence Force (1957–1994)
Notes

Son of Mrs. MM Morris of Eerste Rivier

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 17 Sep 2026: 75584912PC Sergeant Rudolf Morris, SA Cape Corps, stab wound in an altercation with a fellow soldier at the Touwsriver Training Area, age 29. Exact match.
Bushwar Books "Lest We Forget 17 September" (warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-17-september/), cross-checked 17 Sep 2026: exact match.
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
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External References
Stories 1
by Graham Du Toit on 17 September 2014 · via source
17 Sep 1987: 75584912PC Sergeant Rudolf Morris from the South African Cape Corps died from a stab wound received during an altercation with a fellow soldier at the Touwsriver Training Area. He was 29.
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