Mbhele (V)

16 Sep 2026: National Gunners' Memorial, Potchefstroom (MemorialID 99), from a photograph supplied by John Dovey. Inscribed "GNR V. MBHELE". Grouped under the panel's 1986 year heading, so the year of death is read from the block, not from a date on the stone -- treat 1986 as indicative until confirmed. NEW ROH record -- no match found on the roll under this surname or its common spelling variants in any year, and none among the artillery dead of the 1980s. The memorial panels give rank, initials and surname only: no service number, unit, exact date or cause of death appears on the stone, so those fields are left Unknown rather than guessed. The photograph is a partial crop and further photographs are expected; detail to be filled in as it comes.