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Identity
Person No.
33169
Old ROH no.
1377
Service No.
67234162BT
Last Name
Swanepoel 83
First Name
Jan Andries
Initials
J A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1951 (±1 yr) 254
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
26 February 1976 107
Cause code
MVA 2,640
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, Unimog overturned at Chitado, Southern Angola, on the Chitado-Ruacana road. He was a passenger
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
8 Signal Regiment 1
Corps
South African Corps of Signals 356
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
PRETORIA (ZANDFONTEIN) CEMETERY 51
Grave Reference
Panel 03 1
Notes

Husband of Mrs. M. J. S. Swanepoel, of Pretoria

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Feb 2024: 67234162BT Corporal Jan Andries Swanepoel, 8 Signal Regiment, killed when the Unimog he was a passenger in overturned at Chitado, Southern Angola, age 25.
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "8 Signal Regiment" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
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".

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External References
Stories 1
by Lourens Swanepoel on 01 March 2013 · via source
Sy volle name was Jan Andries Swanepoel hy het twee kinders gehad. Hy was gebore 26/05/1950 hy het gesterwe 26/02/1976. Sy vrou se name was Marta Johanna Susanna hy is begrawe in Zandfontein Begrafplaas in Pretoria. Hy het gesterwe in Rukana hospitaal.
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