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Photo of Sprowson
Identity
Person No.
33060
Old ROH no.
1336
Service No.
85224475BG
Last Name
Sprowson 1
First Name
Shaun Anthony
Initials
S A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1966 (±1 yr) 250
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
07 September 1986 126
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident: his SAMAC Horse and Trailer overturned while transporting ammunition from Grootfontein to Rundu
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 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
KwaZulu-Natal 1,589
Cemetery
NEWCASTLE CEMETERY 10
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 3
Coordinates
-27.75721, 29.94408 OSM
Notes

Nephew of Mr. R. A. Sprowson, of Newcastle.

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 7 Sep 2026: confirmed; CauseDeath enriched with the SAMAC Horse and Trailer detail.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.
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".

Citations

Unknown

External References
Stories 1
by Graham Du Toit on 07 September 2014 · via source
07 Sep 1986: 85224475BG Private Shaun Anthony Sprowson from 16 Maintenance Unit was killed when the Samac Horse and Trailor he was driving, overturned on the Rundu Road. He was 20.
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