Identity
Person No.
32243
Old ROH no.
1057
Service No.
60065356
Last Name
First Name
Andrew Mark
Initials
A M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of heat exhaustion, collapsed while on a cross country run and died in the Groote Schuur Hospital
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Notes
Son of Capt. John Oswald Newton-Thompson, DFC.
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour, page 25: gives name "Newton-Thompson A.M." matching exactly (SN 60065356) — confirmed, no changes.
Stories 1
I was with Newton-Thompson in HQ Company in Oudtshoorn from 04 January 1965. We were in the Vickers ,.303 Medium Machine Gun Platoon and we went on a cross country run as we called it. It was a very hot day and my friend collapsed and die a day or two later . I later met his sister and we worked together for a while in 1994.
Dedications
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