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Identity
Person No.
32828
Old ROH no.
1269
Service No.
81093031BT
Last Name
Schoenfeldt 1
First Name
Barend Johannes
Initials
B J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1965 (±1 yr) 279
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
09 October 1987 175
Cause code
MVA 2,631
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died of injuries 578
Died of injuries, received in Military Vehicle Accident. Injured when trying to jump start another vehicle with a Samil 50. The Samil rolled back and crushed him underneath. Died at Messina Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Ordnance Services Corps 95
Later renamed South African Ordnance Service Corps
Unit
16 Maintenance Unit 25
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
PANORAMA CEMETERY 11
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 4
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Schoenfeldt, of Roodepoort

Research notes


Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives ServiceNo 81903031BT against this record's 81093031BT. The two numbers differ by only 2 digit(s), so one is a transcription slip -- but nothing here says which, and this record is not part of any shared-number run. Not resolved. Flagged, not changed.
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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