Identity
Person No.
33933
Old ROH no.
1688
Service No.
05570718E
Last Name
First Name
John Andrew
Initials
J A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, AT-6 Harvard #7519 crashed near Devon while on a routine training flight
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Defence Force
SADF 3,839
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
Part of
Notes
Son of Mr. N. P. Zimmerman. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". 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
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 6 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
Stories 1
John Andrew Zimmerman served in the Air Force Gymnasium in 1964 and was selected for pilot training. He joined the permanent force and read for a B Sc at the military academy at Langebaan. He the served as pilot training officer and was killed in an accident while on a training flight in a Harvard. He was a popular man and sorely missed by his family.
Dedications
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