Identity
Person No.
32695
Old ROH no.
1211
Service No.
540976
Last Name
First Name
Piet
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,204
Drowned
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident, drowned during a sea training exercise when their light surface craft was hit by a freak wave and capsized in Kalkbay
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Husband of Mrs. M. M. Rittles.
Research notes
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
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 15 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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