Identity
Person No.
32548
Old ROH no.
1157
Service No.
PX/47750
Last Name
First Name
Izak Cornelius
Initials
I C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, near Coligny, in Cessna 185A #728. He was busy with a tactical exercise as part of "Exercise Musslebreak" and patrolling the Ventersdorp-Coligney Rd in a westerly direction. One mile past Bodenstein, he gained height and then crashed
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Field Cornet
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Notes
Son of Mr. S. J. Du Toit Potgieter
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "42 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
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 (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), page 4 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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