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Identity
Person No.
33164
Old ROH no.
35244
Service No.
87282661
Last Name
Sutton 14
First Name
Jeremy John
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1968 (±1 yr) 303
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Date of Death
30 August 2000 120
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Cause of death not established
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,343
Unit
Umkhombe Commando 3
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SANDF 1,021
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,859
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System category
Part of
Group 27
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

Husband of Mrs. J. Suttill, of Durban.

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 30 Aug 2026: Pte J.J. Sutton, Umkhombe Commando, KIA -- shot dead by persons unknown in the Ntshongwe area while gathering intelligence information, age 29. Matches ROH record.
7 Sep 2026: CauseDeath was a forward-fill copy from PN 33163 (Suttill, Ian (I)), an unrelated record -- cleared as contamination (CauseDeath-contamination scan, data/causedeath-contamination-scan-2026-09-07.md, batch 2), not a real cause.
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 Age 29 against this record's 32. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.

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