PDF
« Previous

Mwale , Clement (C)

Next »
No photograph available — remembrance poppy
Identity
Person No.
32127
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Clement
Initials
C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
45
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
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
Special Forces (reconnaissance)
Status
Regular Force
Part of
Each numbered Reconnaissance unit was renamed over time: "X Reconnaissance Commando" -> "X Reconnaissance Regiment" (1981) -> briefly a Parachute Battalion designation (1992/93, under "45 Parachute Brigade", a Special-Forces-only designation distinct from the real 44 Parachute Brigade) -> "X Special Forces Regiment" (1995). The parent formation itself changed name several times before 1995 (Special Forces Headquarters, then Directorate Reconnaissance(Forces)) with disputed exact dates between sources -- 1995 is the one date sources agree on. Corps classified as SAIC (South African Infantry Corps) per this site's own records; no independent source found confirms that for Special Forces units specifically -- treat as owner-asserted pending a better citation.
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit was leftover "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)"; Regiment was "5th Reconnaissance Regiment". SAWGP Regiment 5th Reconnaissance Regiment with no separate unit.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '93656221' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 32126 to 32129 -- 4 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (32126, Mvokluana, Johannes (S)). 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.
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
Unknown
Stories

No stories have been added yet.

Dedications

No dedications have been added yet.