Identity
Person No.
32341
Old ROH no.
35188
Service No.
94833761PV
Last Name
First Name
Serame David
Initials
S D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died from injuries received in an accident between 2 Ratels at Richards Bay. He died en route to 1 Mil Hosp in Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
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
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Armour (Armoured Car) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox, and still serving, based at Tempe near Bloemfontein. Took part in Operation Boleas, the South African intervention in Lesotho, in 1998. Now equipped with the Rooikat 76 and the Ratel 90 and ZT3; under Project Hoefyster it is to receive the Denel Badger in missile and fire-support variants. Deployment strength about 1,000. In the draft Vision 2020 force design it is charted as the armoured car regiment of the Armoured Brigade (Free State), Mechanised Division. Its sister unit 2 SSB (OrgEntityID 2257) was demobilised on 30 August 1997, leaving 1 SSB one of only two full-time armoured regiments in the SA Army.
Notes
Son of Mrs. F. Nyareli of Sharpville.
Research notes
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 22 against this record's 28. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
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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