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Identity
Person No.
33106
Service No.
75248047
Last Name
Steyn 103
First Name
Dirk Cornelius
Initials
D C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1960 (±1 yr) 418
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
30 September 1978 102
Cause code
MVA 2,646
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in a Private Motor Vehicle Accident 32
Died in a Private Motor Vehicle Accident, at Pietersburg
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
2 Special Service Battalion 51
Defence Force
SADF 3,852
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
KEMPTON PARK (MOOIFONTEIN) CEMETERY 19
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 6
Unit History
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Units
Re-established 1 October 1973 out of C Squadron 1 SSB, itself formed as C Squadron of 2 Armoured Car Regiment in February 1962 and renamed 22 December 1966. Regimental HQ and C Squadron at Zeerust; D Squadron detached to 2 SAI at Walvis Bay. Squadrons served in Namibia and Angola from 1974: B, C and D Squadrons on Operation Savannah, 8 October 1975 to 31 January 1976, and later Operations Protea, Daisy, Hooper and Modular. On 25 January 1988 it became the first unit in South Africa granted the Right of Free Admission to a coloured community, Henryville. Most of the men on this roll who point at 2 SSB belong to this period. Also took part in Operation Adding on 10 February 1988, the intervention restoring the Bophuthatswana government after the coup attempt against President Mangope. Equipped with the Ratel IFV and, from May 1990, the Rooikat; received national colours 30 June 1990.
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Steyn, of Kempton Park.

Research notes


25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.
30 Sep 2026: UNIT CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: DB holds Unit "2 Special Service Battalion" (Army). Mike Sandham (SAWGP)/Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 30 Sep 2026, both independently give "Air Force Base Pietersburg". Same date/cause/age/rank/surname otherwise match. SERVICE NUMBER SUFFIX: DB holds 75248047, source adds suffix BA. Not resolved; flagging only.

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