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Identity
Person No.
43382
Service No.
67416966KT
Last Name
Greyvenstein 5
First Name
Andries Adriaan Smit
Initials
A A S
Date of Birth
07 April 1948 123
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
20 January 1979 94
Cause code
SUIC 384
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed suicide 3
Committed suicide, with a R1 Rifle, at Burgersdorp
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Stormberg Commando 1
Defence Force
SADF 3,830
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Eastern Cape 971
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System category
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

Headstone: *7.4.1948 – †20.1.1979 (age 30). Often listed under 7 Aug 1979 in secondary sources (Mike mail 7 Aug). ROH DateDeath follows headstone.

Research notes

OMISSIONS: 7 AUGUST (mail date). SAWGP / Mike Sandham. Headstone date used.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: dates of death differ -- Mike 1979-08-07 this record 1979-01-20. A gap of a few days commonly separates wounding from death, or a burial date from a death date. Flagged, not changed.
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 Age 31 against this record's 30. RESOLVED IN THE ROLL'S FAVOUR -- this record carries a real date of birth (1948-04-07), and against the date of death (1979-01-20) the age at death computes to 30. Mike's figure is wrong. No change made.

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