Identity
Person No.
35259
Service No.
19533
Last Name
First Name
Jacobus Coetzee
Initials
J C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,584
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in Freak Accident, after being lowered into a well to recover the body of a native. The existence of carbon dioxide gas in the well was later discovered as being the cause of death of the native as well as Const. Kotze
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
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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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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