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Identity
Person No.
30197
Old ROH no.
410
Service No.
66395054N
Last Name
First Name
Brian Wesley
Initials
B W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
17
Death Record
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Katima Mulilo
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mr. Dennis Stephen Dyer

Research notes


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 ServiceNo 6630505N against this record's 66395054N. The two numbers differ by only 2 digit(s), so one is a transcription slip -- but nothing here says which, and this record is not part of any shared-number run. Not resolved. Flagged, not changed.
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".

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Dedications 1
by Graham du Toit on 21 November 2020 · via War in Angola
6630505N Trooper Brian Wesley Dyer from 1 Special Service Battalion was accidentally killed on 21 November 1968 when his Eland 60 Armoured Car, Callsign VA-60, overturned on the single bend in the road between M’pacha and Katima Mulilo.

In 1971, an engraved white stone was unveiled by the Officer Commanding of 1 Special Service Battalion, Commandant W.C. Meyer in his memory. He was 17. He was the first SADF soldier to die on service in the Bush War.

Engraved white Memorial stone being unveiled by the Officer Commanding of 1 Special service Battalion, Commandant W.C. Meyer in 1971