Identity
Person No.
30238
Service No.
01496140PE
Last Name
First Name
Thomas William
Initials
T W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
44
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 765
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of a heart attack at 1 Mil Hospital in Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Commandant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Husband of Mrs. E. P. Engela, of Pretoria.
Research notes
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
12 Oct 2026: ServiceNo suffix PE added (was 01496140, no suffix), per Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 12 Oct 2026. Rank, unit, date, age and cause already matched exactly.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 12 Oct 2026
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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