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Identity
Person No.
32105
Service No.
79212692
Last Name
Muller 71
First Name
Pierre Johan
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1964 (±1 yr) 296
Age at Death
18
Death Record
Date of Death
06 February 1982 120
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in motor vehicle accident at Zeerust, while on duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Armoured Corps 438
Unit
2 Special Service Battalion 51
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Western Cape 2,137
Cemetery
BELLVILLE (STIKLAND) CEMETERY 91
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 43
Unit History
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Other listed units (not nested under a brigade above) › Units
Re-established 1 October 1973 out of C Squadron 1 SSB, itself formed as C Squadron of 2 Armoured Car Regiment in February 1962 and renamed 22 December 1966. Regimental HQ and C Squadron at Zeerust; D Squadron detached to 2 SAI at Walvis Bay. Squadrons served in Namibia and Angola from 1974: B, C and D Squadrons on Operation Savannah, 8 October 1975 to 31 January 1976, and later Operations Protea, Daisy, Hooper and Modular. On 25 January 1988 it became the first unit in South Africa granted the Right of Free Admission to a coloured community, Henryville. Most of the men on this roll who point at 2 SSB belong to this period. Also took part in Operation Adding on 10 February 1988, the intervention restoring the Bophuthatswana government after the coup attempt against President Mangope. Equipped with the Ratel IFV and, from May 1990, the Rooikat; received national colours 30 June 1990.
Notes

Son of Mr. C. J. Muller, of Kraaifontein

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".
8 Oct 2026: Confirmed by John's compiled list of verified 2 SSB vehicle-related deaths, 8 Oct 2026. Matches this record exactly.
8 Oct 2026: POSSIBLE CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED, pending identification. A Facebook comment on the 2 SSB vehicle-deaths post says "Cpl Muller was a bike accident on a Saturday (off duty)" -- could refer to this record or to David Michael Muller (32098); John was unsure which when asked. This record (Pierre Johan Muller) is stored as "motor vehicle accident at Zeerust, while on duty", which the comment's "off duty" directly contradicts. Not changed; flagged pending confirmation of which Muller the comment means.

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