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Identity
Person No.
33492
Old ROH no.
1574
Service No.
83066175CK
First Name
Johannes August
Initials
J A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Cause code
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, at Bagani
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mrs. L. van der Westhuizen. ***Birth date, not death date on stone

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 12 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 12 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-12-september/ 83066175CK Rfn Johannes August van der Westhuizen, SA Cape Corps, accidental discharge of a fellow soldier's rifle at Bagani, age 19. Unit2 leftover "United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur" cleared (impossible for 1983). CONFLICT flagged, not changed: Graham+Bushwar age 19 vs stored Age 18.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.

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by Graham Du Toit on 12 September 2014 · via source
12 Sep 1983: 83066175CK Rifleman Johannes August van der Westhuizen from the South African Cape Corps was killed after being struck by a bullet from an accidental discharge of a fellow soldiers rifle while at Bagani. He was 19.
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