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Identity
Person No.
32747
Old ROH no.
1235
Service No.
85337756BG
Last Name
Rousseau 5
First Name
Andre
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1969 (±1 yr) 301
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
25 August 1989 107
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,514
Cause of death not established
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Signalman
Regiment
2 Signals Regiment 16
Later renamed 2 Signal Regiment
Corps
South African Corps of Signals 356
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
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
Role at time of death
Signals
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
South African Corps of Signals established 1923; 2 Signal Regiment listed under "Regular" (alongside 1, 3, 4, 5 Signal Regt), with 6 Signal Regt as the Reserve unit. Exact formation date for 2 Signal Regiment itself not given in the source.
Notes

Of Johannesburg, South Africa

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 25 Aug 2026 / Bushwar Books: give cause as a private motor vehicle accident at Sannieshof, died in Klerksdorp Hospital -- vs this record's AT-6 Harvard test-flight crash account. Same SN/name/date/unit. Significant conflict, not resolved.
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "2 Signals Regiment" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
7 Sep 2026: CauseDeath was a forward-fill copy from PN 32745 (Rothman, Louis Johannes Lodewyk (L J L)), an unrelated record -- cleared as contamination (CauseDeath-contamination scan, data/causedeath-contamination-scan-2026-09-07.md), not a real cause.
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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