Identity
Person No.
33813
Service No.
97282263PF
Last Name
First Name
Andrew
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MURD 462
Murdered
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,029
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Unit History
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Armour (Armoured Car) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox, and still serving, based at Tempe near Bloemfontein. Took part in Operation Boleas, the South African intervention in Lesotho, in 1998. Now equipped with the Rooikat 76 and the Ratel 90 and ZT3; under Project Hoefyster it is to receive the Denel Badger in missile and fire-support variants. Deployment strength about 1,000. In the draft Vision 2020 force design it is charted as the armoured car regiment of the Armoured Brigade (Free State), Mechanised Division. Its sister unit 2 SSB (OrgEntityID 2257) was demobilised on 30 August 1997, leaving 1 SSB one of only two full-time armoured regiments in the SA Army.
Notes
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Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.
Citations
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External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 13 Aug 2026: 1 SSB, murdered Fouriesburg (cleared HMS Lochinvar).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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