Identity
Person No.
48856
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Hermann C
Initials
Unknown
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died while serving with the SANDF on a peacekeeping/peace-support deployment in DRC. Individual circumstances (combat, accident, illness) not given in the source and not invented here.
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,029
South African National Defence Force
Location
Memorial
Memorial
Location
SANDF Mobilisation Centre, De Brug
Address
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Operation
Operation
Dates
2001
About
SANDF contribution to UN (MONUC/MONUSCO) and later SADC (SAMIDRC) peace support operations in the DRC. Covers the whole run of DRC peacekeeping deployments, which have been renamed and restructured several times over more than two decades; individual sub-operation names are not given per-person in the source used to compile this Operation link.
Awards
United Nations
United Nations Mission in the DR Congo Medal (MONUC/MONUSCO), awarded for qualifying service with the SANDF peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Automatically applied 7 Sep 2026 to all SANDF personnel in this database who died while serving on that mission (DateDeath >= 1999, when MONUC was instituted).
Notes
Unknown
Research notes
defenceWeb, "SANDF peacekeeper fatalities" and "DRC deaths pushed SANDF peacekeeper fatalities to over 100 since democracy" (compiled lists). New record, no prior ROH entry found.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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defenceWeb -- SANDF peacekeeper fatalities
open source ↗
defenceWeb, "SANDF peacekeeper fatalities" and "DRC deaths pushed SANDF peacekeeper fatalities to over 100 since democracy" (compiled lists). New record, no prior ROH entry found.
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