Identity
Person No.
33413
Service No.
79254371BG
Last Name
First Name
Frank Pieter Leendert
Initials
F P L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,627
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, accidentally fell under the wheels of a moving Samil truck
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Defence Force
SADF 3,823
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. van der Bijl, of Westonaria.
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 28 May 2024: 79254371BG Lance Corporal Frank Pieter Leendert van der Bijl, 101 Field Workshops, killed after he accidentally fell under the wheels of a moving Samil truck, age 20. Cleared Unit2 Air Force. MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48752 ("Van der Bijl") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (79254371BG) and DateDeath (1983-05-28), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day.
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Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 28 May 2024: 79254371BG Lance Corporal Frank Pieter Leendert van der Bijl, 101 Field Workshops, killed after he accidentally fell under the wheels of a moving Samil truck, age 20. Cleared Unit2 Air Force.
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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