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Identity
Person No.
32441
Old ROH no.
1116
Service No.
70201470BT
Last Name
Pauley 1
First Name
Christiaan Hendrik
Initials
C H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1959 (±1 yr) 442
Age at Death
17
Death Record
Date of Death
09 September 1976 115
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident 289
Died in Shooting Incident, gunshot wound accidentally sustained in the Operational Area
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
8 South African Infantry Battalion 71
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,839
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
Panel 04 6
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
Panel 4
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Mechanised Infantry — Regular
Notes

Son of Mr. J. A. Pauley.

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 9 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 9 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-9-september/ 70201470BT Rifleman Christiaan Hendrik Pauley, gunshot wound accidentally sustained in a shooting incident in the Operational Area, age 17. CauseDeath enriched with "in the Operational Area" (Graham; Bushwar omits that phrase and the unit — less detail, not a disagreement). CONFLICT flagged, not changed: Graham gives unit "1st Battalion Botha Regiment"; this record's own Regiment is "8 South African Infantry Battalion". The BT suffix is Citizen Force Compulsory Service, which fits Botha Regiment (a Citizen Force infantry regiment) better than regular 8 SAI — not enough to overwrite. Age 17 matches.
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".

Citations
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External References
Stories 1
by Graham Du Toit on 09 September 2014 · via source
09 Sep 1976: 70201470BT Rifleman Christiaan Hendrik Pauley died from a gunshot wound accidentally sustained in a shooting incident. He was 17.
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