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Identity
Person No.
29308
Service No.
84399393BT
Last Name
Badenhorst 62
First Name
Rudolf Johannes
Initials
R J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1967 (±1 yr) 288
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
26 September 1987 123
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident near Mooi Plaas in the Kruger National Park. He was busy with a compulsory camp and crashed the vehicle at night, on a unauthorized trip
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Regiment De la Rey 20
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
North West 534
Cemetery
KLERKSDORP (NEW) CEMETERY 39
Grave Reference
Unknown
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
82 Mechanised Brigade
Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
Notes

Husband of Mrs. C. E. Badenhorst, of Stilfontein.

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2025: 84399393BT Rifleman Rudolf Johannes Badenhorst, Regiment de la Rey, killed in a military vehicle accident while carrying out an unauthorised trip at night near Mooiplaas in the Kruger National Park; compulsory military camp, age 20. ROH service number lacked BT. | Also Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2023 (same anniversary names).
4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "Regiment De la Rey" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2026: "84399393BT Rifleman Rudolf Johannes Badenhorst. He was 20." Confirms the record exactly. Graham adds that the night trip near Mooiplaas was unauthorised and that both men were doing a compulsory camp at the time. The other man is Johannes Petrus van Rensburg (33569).

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