Identity
Person No.
33032
Old ROH no.
1325
Service No.
73245037N
Last Name
First Name
Douglas Brian
Initials
D B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Eenhana in Northern Owamboland
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Son of Mr. C. A. J. Snell.
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2024: 73245037N Lance Corporal Douglas Brian Snell, 11 Commando Regiment, died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Eenhana in Northern Owamboland, age 18. ROH unit already 11 Commando. Eenhana filled; HTML apostrophe entity corrected. | Also Last Post 21 Jul 2026: 73245037N Lance Corporal Douglas Brian Snell, 11 Commando Regiment, accidental discharge in Northern Owamboland, age 18. This shorter post omitted Eenhana (already filled from 21 Jul 2024).
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2024: 73245037N Lance Corporal Douglas Brian Snell, 11 Commando Regiment, died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed at Eenhana in Northern Owamboland, age 18. ROH unit already 11 Commando. Eenhana filled; HTML apostrophe entity corrected.
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Jul 2026: 73245037N Lance Corporal Douglas Brian Snell from 11 Commando Regiment died from a gunshot wound resulting from the accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle while stationed in Northern Owamboland. He was 18. Paste had no calendar year; dated 21 Jul 2026 as the most recent 21 July. Eenhana from Last Post 21 Jul 2024 left in CauseDeath.
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- 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), pages 123-124 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 1
I don't know this person, but believe all names on the grave site photo belong to 2SAI Battalion group from Walvis Bay vic Betteridge
Dedications
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