Identity
Person No.
41756
Service No.
77432300BT
Last Name
First Name
Dereck Calvin
Initials
D C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died, apparently choked in his sleep, at Table Mountain Base, Pietermaritzburg
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Part of
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Husband of Mrs. S. Hignett, of Lawson Road, Rondebosch. Called up for duty with the Cape Light Infantry.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 13 Aug 2026: Cape Flats Commando (was 111 SAI; earlier note said Cape Light Infantry).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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