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No photograph available — remembrance poppy
Identity
Person No.
41508
Service No.
84918978SWH
Last Name
Mutirua 1
First Name
Daniel
Initials
M R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1963 (±1 yr) 330
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
13 September 1985 120
Cause code
DROW 1,203
Drowned
Cause of Death
Accidentally drowned during a river crossing while his patrol was carrying out a follow-up Operation against SWAPO/PLAN insurgents 1
Accidentally drowned during a river crossing while his patrol was carrying out a follow-up Operation against SWAPO/PLAN insurgents
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
102 Battalion 34
Formerly 37 Battalion (1980)
Corps
South West African Territory Force 376
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Body not recovered 79
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Attached To
South African Medical Corps
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 13 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 13 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-13-september/ 84918978SWH Rifleman M.H. Mutirua, 102 Battalion SWATF, accidentally drowned during a river crossing on a SWAPO/PLAN follow-up operation, age 22. SN/unit/age/cause already matched. CONFLICT flagged, not changed: stored FirstName "Daniel" / Initials "M R" vs Graham/Bushwar initials "M.H." — pre-existing mismatch, not resolved here.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives ServiceNo 8491878SWH against this record's 84918978SWH. The two numbers differ by only 1 digit(s), so one is a transcription slip -- but nothing here says which, and this record is not part of any shared-number run. Not resolved. Flagged, not changed.

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***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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