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Identity
Person No.
33374
Old ROH no.
1445
Service No.
08087504KV
Last Name
Uys 47
First Name
Johan Petrus
Initials
J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1934 (±1 yr) 63
Age at Death
51
Death Record
Date of Death
10 September 1985 109
Cause code
MVA 2,660
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in motor vehicle accident 1,764
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at the intersection of the Bothaville and Wesselsbron Road
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Major
Regiment
South African Commandos 98
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Bothaville Commando 1
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA 1,926
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 1,612
Memorial
Memorial
SADF Wall of Remembrance
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Voortrekker Monument, Eeufees Road, Groenkloof, Pretoria, 0181, South Africa
Coordinates
-25.77639, 28.17583 · OpenStreetMap
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
Group 34
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

Husband of Mrs. D. S. V. Uys

Research notes


Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 10 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 10 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-10-september/ 08087504KV Major Johan Petrus Uys, Bothaville Commando, killed military vehicle accident intersection Bothaville and Wesselsbron Road, age 51. CauseDeath wording aligned to Graham/Bushwar "intersection" (was "crossing"). Rank/SN/Unit/Regiment South African Commandos/age already matched. Bushwar Books same-day post is near-verbatim.
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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External References
Stories 1
by Graham Du Toit on 10 September 2014 · via source
09 Sep 1985: 08087504KV Major Johan Petrus Uys from the Bothaville Commando was killed in a military vehicle accident at the intersection of the Bothaville and Wesselsbron Road. He was 51.
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