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Identity
Person No.
33375
Old ROH no.
1446
Service No.
01488550PE
Last Name
Uys 47
First Name
Pieter Benjamin
Initials
P B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1941 (±1 yr) 113
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Date of Death
29 October 1975 156
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,514
Killed in aircraft accident, in Beechcraft Baron. He was detached from 17 Sqn on special duties and was piloting the plane as he had extensive experience on the type with Light Aircraft Command. The plane, known as "Dinky Toy" was supplied by UNITA and had been checked out by SAAF personel at Rundu. It was busy with aerial observations for Battlegroup Foxbat in the Silva Porta area of Angola when it crashed, 6km north of Norton de Matos. The SADF investigation team could not determine the exact cause of the crash
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Major
Regiment
17 Squadron 77
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
THABA TSHWANE (NEW) MILITARY CEMETERY 592
Grave Reference
Grave 854 1
Coordinates
-25.78214, 28.12179 OSM
Notes

Husband of Mrs. H. M. Uys, of Pretoria. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "17 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
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.

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