Identity
Person No.
34202
Service No.
W87636H
Last Name
First Name
Egbertus Bletterman
Initials
E B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Counter-insurgency duty in South West Africa. Member of Koevoet
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unit History
Notes
ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994
Research notes
Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 (second pass, this time verified against Cemetery rather than AddInfo text, after the first AddInfo-based pass was found to be unreliable and reverted). This person's own Cemetery is unambiguously outside South Africa; several other people at the same cemetery already correctly show a blank Locality. Cleared rather than guessed at a specific region.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Koevoet Wall of Remembrance
open source ↗
Koevoet Wall of Remembrance
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South African Police Memorial
open source ↗
South African Police Memorial, Union Buildings, Pretoria (1984).
- 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), pages 66-76 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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