Identity
Person No.
33488
Old ROH no.
1573
Service No.
74252131BN
Last Name
First Name
Hermanus Jakobus
Initials
H J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, in Letaba Training Area
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Secondary Unit
United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes
Son of Mr. H. J. C. van der Westhuizen
Research notes
MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48745 ("Van der Westhuizen") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (74252131BN) and DateDeath (1976-12-24), 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.
Citations
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