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Identity
Person No.
33408
Service No.
P1/41772
Last Name
Van Den Heever 10
First Name
Petrus Johannes
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1932 (±1 yr) 80
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
03 October 1952 107
Cause code
AA 1,735
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident 1,514
Died in Aircraft Accident, Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE #5556, crashed into sea near Saldahna after attack on drogue. He attempted to bale out but the parachute did not deploy
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Air Operations School Langebaanweg 21
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Western Cape 2,137
Cemetery
CAPE TOWN AREA CEMETERY ? 22
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 4
Notes

Son of Mr. M. P. van den Heever, of Deneysville. ref. 85 years of SAAF

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".
3 Oct 2026: SPELLING VARIANT, NOT CHANGED: DB holds surname "Van Der Heever"; Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 3 Oct 2026, spells it "Van Den Heever" against the same date/rank/cause/unit/service number/age. Both are known Afrikaans surname forms; not resolved which is correct for this man, noted only.

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