Identity
Person No.
29459
Old ROH no.
99
Service No.
89959043CK
Last Name
First Name
Michael Paul
Initials
M P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 548
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, at Queenstown, shot by fellow member, who then shot himself
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Blankenberg
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Mike Sandham
Mike Sandham: second Group 39 H.Q. casualty in same shooting incident remains unnamed (unable to determine name).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 132-133 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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— Same incident
Associated · 01 August 1992Died in the same shooting incident at Group 39 HQ, Queenstown, in which Cpl Michael Paul Blankenberg was shot by a fellow member who then shot himself.
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