Identity
Person No.
37110
Service No.
0431492-1
Last Name
First Name
Ian Harry
Initials
I H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DUTY 1,421
Died on duty
Cause of Death
Shot and killed on duty by a person who had attempted to break into a house. Incidentally, his brother was shot too - they were working together in the Police at the time
Military Service
Rank
Lance Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,732
South African Police
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Brother of Andrew Petrie, of New Zealand (living there in 2010).
Research notes
Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 as part of a broader systemic fix: a large batch of records (thousands, mostly DateChecked 2026-08-17 and a few other dates) were defaulted to Gauteng regardless of the person's actual origin. This record's own AddInfo places them outside South Africa entirely, so Locality is cleared rather than guessed at a specific province.
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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