Son of Mr. A. van der Merwe.
MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48742 ("Van der Merwe") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (68772814N) and DateDeath (1971-09-09), 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.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 9 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 9 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-9-september/ 68772814N 2/Lieutenant Peter Schalk van der Merwe, 4 SAI, killed in a military vehicle accident, age 19. Matches this record. Bushwar Books same-day post is word-for-word on this entry. Probable duplicates left unmerged: PN 33471 (same ServiceNo 68772814N, FirstName "Renier", DateDeath Unknown, same age/unit/cause/next-of-kin) and PN 48993 (ServiceNo 68272814N one-digit variant, FirstName "Pieter Schalk", same date — Sandham/pantser PDF).
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