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Identity
Person No.
32633
Old ROH no.
1191
Service No.
80403264BG
Last Name
Randall 15
First Name
Jeams Andries Solomon Theodorus
Initials
J A S T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1964 (±1 yr) 296
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
27 September 1984 131
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Armoured Corps 438
Unit
2 Special Service Battalion 51
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Eastern Cape 971
Cemetery
PORT ELIZABETH (FOREST HILL) CEMETERY 62
Grave Reference
Section 34, Row H, Number 29N 1
Unit History
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Units
Re-established 1 October 1973 out of C Squadron 1 SSB, itself formed as C Squadron of 2 Armoured Car Regiment in February 1962 and renamed 22 December 1966. Regimental HQ and C Squadron at Zeerust; D Squadron detached to 2 SAI at Walvis Bay. Squadrons served in Namibia and Angola from 1974: B, C and D Squadrons on Operation Savannah, 8 October 1975 to 31 January 1976, and later Operations Protea, Daisy, Hooper and Modular. On 25 January 1988 it became the first unit in South Africa granted the Right of Free Admission to a coloured community, Henryville. Most of the men on this roll who point at 2 SSB belong to this period. Also took part in Operation Adding on 10 February 1988, the intervention restoring the Bophuthatswana government after the coup attempt against President Mangope. Equipped with the Ratel IFV and, from May 1990, the Rooikat; received national colours 30 June 1990.
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall, of Port Elizabeth.

Research notes


25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 27 Sep 2026: "80403264BG Trooper Jeams Andries Solomon Theodorus Randall. He was 20." One of two men killed when their SAMIL 20 overturned at Groot Marico after a front tyre burst. Confirms the record exactly; this record already carries the circumstances in the other man's entry (30848).

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External References
Stories 2
on 05 April 2003 · via source
This male was born Edward Thomas Vine. He was a scholar in Holy Trinity Day School. He died of Dysentery after being wounded 3 times on may 31st 1900 aged 23.
by Graham Du Toit on 27 September 2014 · via source
27 Sep 1984: 80403264BG Trooper Jeams Andries Solomon Theodorus Randall from 2 Special Service Battalion was killed in a military vehicle accident at Zeerust. He was 20.
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