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Identity
Person No.
32155
Old ROH no.
34878
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Nando 1
First Name
Unknown
Initials
O
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1959 (±1 yr) 444
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
06 July 1982 131
Cause code
MVA 2,640
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Rundu
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
201 Battalion 43
Formerly 31 Battalion (1980)
Corps
South West African Territory Force 376
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
NEW SEC 3 1
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
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes



10 Sep 2026: Cleared FirstName "Jorge" as forward-fill from Nambi 32154. ServiceNo 80821028SP still shared with 32156-32158 - SN collision not resolved in this pass. Mike Sandham FN pass.

10 Sep 2026: ServiceNo 80821028SP cleared - four-way collision across distinct casualties 32155 Nando (1982-07-06), 32156 Nangolo (1984-01-11), 32157 Nangolo (1987-01-08), 32158 Nangula (1987-03-11). Left blank until a source assigns the number to one man. Mike Sandham / John decision.
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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