Husband of Mrs. C. W. C. van der Westhuizen, of Bloemfontein
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 24 Oct 2024: 67285361PE Sergeant Gerhardus Hendrik van der Westhuizen, South African Corps of Military Police, killed when his military motorcycle was struck by a truck while overtaking about 8 km from Lindley and he fell under the wheels, age 35. Regiment is already SACMP; unit is 3 SAI (not overwritten). ROH has the motorcycle striking the truck (not overwritten). Cleared anachronistic Unit2 UNAMID Darfur. Cause had HTML entity ' — corrected to an apostrophe. MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48763 ("Van der Westhuizen") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (67285361PE) and DateDeath (1986-10-24), 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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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 24 Oct 2024: 67285361PE Sergeant Gerhardus Hendrik van der Westhuizen, South African Corps of Military Police, killed when his military motorcycle was struck by a truck while overtaking about 8 km from Lindley and he fell under the wheels, age 35. Regiment is already SACMP; unit is 3 SAI (not overwritten). ROH has the motorcycle striking the truck (not overwritten). Cleared anachronistic Unit2 UNAMID Darfur. Cause had HTML entity ' — corrected to an apostrophe.
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