Identity
Person No.
33388
Service No.
P16388
Last Name
First Name
Samuel Deon
Initials
T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, mid-air collision with De Havilland Vampire #239, crashed at Langebaanweg, in AT-6 Harvard #7001
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Air Mechanic
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,839
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
ref. 85 years of SAAF
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.
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), page 2 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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