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Identity
Person No.
32723
Old ROH no.
1226
Service No.
87953436CK
Last Name
Roman 3
First Name
Stephen Lesley
Initials
S L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1966 (±1 yr) 250
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
12 September 1987 155
Cause code
MVA 2,634
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in a Motor Vehicle Accident, at Mamelodi, North of Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Cape Corps 1,518
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Unit
1 Sa Cape 32
Defence Force
SADF 3,834
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
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
Part of
South African Defence Force (1957–1994)
Notes

Son of Mr. J. Roman

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 12 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 12 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-12-september/ 87953436CK L/Cpl Stephen Lesley Roman, SA Cape Corps, MVA Mamelodi north of Pretoria, age 21. Exact match.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
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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External References
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on 12 September 2014 · via source
12 Sep 1987: 87953436CK Lance Corporal Stephen Lesley Roman from the South African Cape Corps was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Mamelodi, North of Pretoria. He was 21 Graham Du Toit
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