Identity
Person No.
33818
Old ROH no.
1638
Service No.
01238658E
Last Name
First Name
Peter
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S-51 #415, disappeared over the sea 30km east of the Tugela River Mouth while carrying out night exercises. The crew have no known grave and remain unaccounted for. During 1977, a section of a Buccaneer engine panel and some other wreckage was found in the nets of a fishing trawler when it returned from the area. In 2014, one complete main undercarriage leg with wheel rim and tyre was found in the nets of a fishing trawler returning from the same area. The serial number on the wheel rim positively identified the wreckage as belonging to this aircraft
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Major
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Webb. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
5 Sep 2026: Unit "24 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 13 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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