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Identity
Person No.
33569
Service No.
75523522KT
Last Name
Van Rensburg 111
First Name
Johannes Petrus
Initials
J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1959 (±1 yr) 444
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
26 September 1987 123
Cause code
MVA 2,646
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, near Mooi Plaas in the Kruger National Park. He was busy with a compulsory camp and crashed the vehicle at night, on a unauthorized trip
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Regiment De la Rey 20
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,852
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
KRUGERSDORP (STERKFONTEIN) CEMETERY 47
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 22
Coordinates
-26.06757, 27.76241 OSM
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
82 Mechanised Brigade
Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
Notes

Husband of Mrs. S. van Rensburg, of Krugersdorp.

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment De la Rey" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2026: "75523522KT Rifleman Johannes Petrus van Rensburg. He was 28." Confirms the record; the service number gains its suffix, "75523522" becoming "75523522KT".
- RANK CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record gives Private, Graham gives Rifleman. Both are infantry private-equivalents.
- Graham adds that both men were on a compulsory camp and that the trip was unauthorised and at night, which this record did not say.

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