Ras, Jacob Johannes

Identity

Person No.

32637

Old ROH no.

1192

Service No.

70010186PE

Last Name

Ras 8

First Name

Jacob Johannes

Initials

J J

Date of Birth

Unknown

Est. Birth Year

1945 (±1 yr) 160

Age at Death

38

Death Record

Date of Death

20 May 1983 141

Cause code

KIA 14,779

Killed in action

Cause of Death

Killed in action 14,655

Killed in action, at Pretoria, car bomb attack on SAAF HQ, 17 killed 197 injured

Military Service

Branch

Air Force

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Regiment

Unknown

Corps

South African Air Force 3,524

Unit

HQ, Pretoria 10

Defence Force

SADF 3,832

South African Defence Force

Location

Country

South Africa 23,874

Locality

Gauteng 9,374

Cemetery

THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY 592

Grave Reference

Grave 1221 1

Coordinates

-25.78214, 28.12179 OSM

Awards

Pro Patria Medal

South Africa

Pro Patria Medal warrant, Government Gazette No. 5171 (25 Jun 1976), Rule 5, as amended by GG No. 5575 (3 Jun 1977); discontinued by GG No. 25213 (25 Jul 2003, Schedule corrected by GG No. 26778, 17 Sep 2004) for service on/after 27 Apr 2003. Gazette extracts: https://rohsa.co.za/award.php?id=24

Notes

Husband of Mrs. E. H. F. Ras, of Pretoria.

Research notes

25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". 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.

Citations

Unknown

External References

SADF.info Border Roll of Honour open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
South African War Graves Project open source ↗
The War in Angola open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 54-56 of 143: confirmed, no changes.

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Meyer, Adriana Johanna Christiana — Same incident
Civilian · 20 May 1983

Killed in the Church Street car bomb outside SAAF headquarters, Pretoria.

Stories 1

on 07 March 2006 · via source

On 20 May 1983, the MK (ANC) Special Operations Unit planted a car bomb in Church Street, Pretoria, outside the building housing the administrative headquarters of the South African Air Force. The explosion killed twenty-one people (eleven of whom were employees of the SAAF and two of whom were MK operatives) and injured 217. Flight Sergeant Jacobus Johannes Ras was one

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Ras , Jacob Johannes (J J)