Identity
Person No.
32356
Service No.
77347151
Last Name
First Name
Walter Donald
Initials
W D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,640
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in a Pedestrian Accident, struck by a passing car while walking on the pavement. He was on weekend pass at the time
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
13 Field Squadron
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Son of Mr. P. D. O'Connor, of Virginia.
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