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Identity
Person No.
33627
Old ROH no.
1517
Service No.
84076124CK
Last Name
First Name
Jannie
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,640
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, Buffel Troop Carrier overturned on the Kamanjab to Kaokoveld Road
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
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 Mrs. M. van Wyk | Same Buffel as Rfn Wildschutt 33868. Earlier ROH place Eersterivier superseded by Graham / incident road. | Graham Last Post 13 Aug re-post again gives Eersterivier (same as Wildschutt 33868 / SAWGP). Earlier Graham WhatsApp had Kamanjab–Kaokoveld; that place left on CauseDeath pending a better source.

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).
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".

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