Identity
Person No.
33773
Old ROH no.
1620
Service No.
79468609PS
Last Name
First Name
Barend Jacobus
Initials
B J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,735
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in aircraft accident, when his Atlas MB326M Impala Mk I, Serial No. 464 crashed into the sea off Durban during a training exercise with the South African Navy. His rear-seater, Captain Renier Pienaar ejected successfully and was rescued from the sea by the Navy
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,843
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Unit History
Part of
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Vorster. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "8 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
Citations
Unknown
External References
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
open source ↗
SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), page 12 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War in Angola Member Dedications forum (www.warinangola.com), Excel export supplied by Johan Schoeman, 1 Sep 2026. Forum post(s): 22314.
Stories
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Dedications 2
My room-mate at CFS Langebaanweg on pupes course 1/82. We talked for many hours about "ejecting in time" during an emergency. What happened off the beach at Durban on that terrible day - 20 July 1987. "Fly free Fly forever - Rest in peace" "Harry" Carel Oberholzer
I think the circumstances surrounding this are inaccurate.