Identity
Person No.
33453
Old ROH no.
1551
Service No.
65942179E
Last Name
First Name
Hendrik
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,627
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Bredasdorp. The driver of a landrover lost control on a road under construction and the vehicle rolled
Military Service
Branch
Navy
Rank
Leading Seaman
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Unit
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,823
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Husband of Mrs. O. N. van der Merwe. | Passenger 68091503N LS Ivan William Kearns critically injured; died in hospital 15 Aug 1973.
Research notes
MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48743 ("Van der Merwe") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (65942179E) and DateDeath (1973-08-10), 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.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 10 Aug 2026.
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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