Identity
Person No.
33456
Old ROH no.
1554
Service No.
67526913E
Last Name
First Name
Hermanus Stephanus
Initials
H S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,631
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident. While part of a convoy en route to Devon, the military bus he was in left the road near Fort Mistake (36 miles from Newcastle) and crashed
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Son of Mr. W. S. van der Merwe, of Roodepoort. 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.
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