Identity
Person No.
33408
Service No.
P1/41772
Last Name
First Name
Petrus Johannes
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE #5556, crashed into sea near Saldahna after attack on drogue. He attempted to bale out but the parachute did not deploy
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Son of Mr. M. P. van den Heever, of Deneysville. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
Citations
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