Identity
Person No.
33767
Service No.
72449325BC
Last Name
First Name
Gerhard
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received in action during the Battle of Ebo. His armoured car was hit in the turret and he jumped out of the vehicle. A sniper shot him in the stomach and although he was taken to the hospital at Cela and was successfully operated on, he died later from complications
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Air Force
Defence Force
SADF 3,821
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Notes
Son of Mr. H. J. Vollgraaff, of Kanoneiland.
Research notes
MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48727 ("Vollgraaf") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (72449325BC) and DateDeath (1975-11-23), 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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