Identity
Person No.
33008
Service No.
74402207BG
Last Name
First Name
Charles Alexander Peter
Initials
C A P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident, accidentally killed when a gas cylinder that was being loaded onto a truck, slipped and fell, hitting him on the head. He was a member of the Regimental Police, Air Force Gymnasium
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,852
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes
Regimental Police, Air Force Gymnasium. Alternate given names in some sources: Charles Anthony Peter (Bushwar). Earlier SAWGP narrative had presumed suicide / bullet wound on guard duty at Hoedspruit AFB — superseded by freak accident account (Mike Sandham).
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Other web source
open source ↗
Mike Sandham / SAWGP. Service 74402207BG (not P2/925). Bushwar: ; SAWGP details.php?id=33008
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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