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No photograph available — remembrance poppy
Identity
Person No.
32445
Service No.
75014399PN
Last Name
Paulo 6
First Name
First Name Unknown
Initials
F N U
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1950 (±1 yr) 232
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
23 August 1976 133
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident 289
Died in Shooting Incident, accident, during operations
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Regiment
1 Reconnaissance Regiment 14
Formerly 1 Reconnaissance Commando (1996)
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
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
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
Unit History
Role at time of death
Special Forces (Reconnaissance)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular), some sub-units Citizen Force
The first South African Special Forces unit, established at Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, 1 October 1972. Special Forces operate as their own branch within the SANDF (not part of the Army/Navy). Some Reconnaissance Commandos had Citizen Force (reserve) components alongside the standing Permanent Force structure -- needs further research to determine which applies to a specific record/era.
Notes

Brother of Maria Paulo. ref. "Die Buffel Struikel" by L. J. Bothma

Research notes

Service No 75014399PN is shared in ROH with 4 other unrelated people (PersonNumbers 32446, 32447, 32448, 32449) spanning 1976-1984 — a pre-existing data-quality issue, flagged by Mike Sandham (23 Aug 2026 omissions email), not resolved. Not the same person as the newly-added Roxo, Francisco Daniel (PersonNumber 48808, SN 75014399N, same date), despite the close SN/date match — this record's existing age (26) and family detail ("Brother of Maria Paulo") don't fit a 43-year-old Honoris Crux recipient. 26 Aug 2026: Unit was leftover "32 (Buffalo) Battalion". SAWGP Regiment 1 Reconnaissance Regiment with no separate unit.
12 Sep 2026: Sandham stub PersonNumber 48808 (Francisco Daniel Roxo) merged into PersonNumber 32757 (SAWGP Grave 898). This record remains a different person (Paulo, age 26, brother of Maria Paulo) holding ServiceNo 75014399PN.
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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