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Identity
Person No.
32003
Service No.
71391601BT
Last Name
First Name
Kevin James
Initials
K J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, Rfn Morrow and a few other soldiers were tasked to act as a protection element for a Technical Service Corps crew sent out to recover a broken down Buffel vehicle. After the Buffel vehicle was located and hitched to the recovery vehicle, he took up a position on the back of the recovery vehicle. On the return journey to Ondangwa, the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to overturn Rfn Morrow still sitting on the back. He was killed instantly
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force / Army Conventional Reserve
Part of
Part of
Became a mechanised infantry regiment at an undocumented date within this era — no source found dates the transition.
Notes

Husband of Mrs. H. Morrow. Father of Candice Clare Johnson, now of Perth, Western Australia. Morrow was from Malvern, Kwazulu Natal.

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "Rand Light Infantry" → Regiment (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
John Dovey, 1 Sep 2026 (Durban Light Infantry Chapel memorial panel review): Regiment/Unit corrected -- the chapel's SWA/Angola plaque marks this person "(RPN)", i.e. Regiment Port Natal, which was amalgamated into the Durban Light Infantry. Regiment set to Durban Light Infantry, Unit set to Regiment Port Natal.
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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