Identity
Person No.
31682
Service No.
10928778KV
Last Name
First Name
Jimmy Elias
Initials
J E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
26
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 548
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, shot accidentally by fellow SANDF member while on patrol, at Daveyton
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unit
Defence Force
SANDF 1,041
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (area defence)
Status
Commando (Area Bound Reserve)
Part of
SADF Commando System
category
Part of
Generic Regiment-field text used across hundreds of records whose actual unit is a specific local Commando (e.g. Rustenburg Commando, Boksburg Commando -- captured in Unit). Post-WWII, "Commando" is its own force-component category alongside Regular/Permanent Force and Active Citizen Force -- area-bound, part-time reserve units tied to a specific district, mobilised for local counter-insurgency/area protection duties during the Border War era. Not a single regiment; this Status applies to the whole category.
Notes
Son of Mrs. B. A. Mathebula
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Aug 2026: 10928778KV Rifleman Jimmy Elias Mathebula, Benoni Commando, accidentally shot dead by a fellow soldier while on foot patrol in Daveyton, age 26. Names, SN, date, age, and Daveyton patrol shooting already matched.
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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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 21 Aug 2026: 10928778KV Rfn Jimmy Elias Mathebula, Benoni Commando, accidentally shot by fellow soldier, Daveyton foot patrol, age 26.
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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