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Identity
Person No.
33767
Service No.
72449325BC
Last Name
Vollgraaff 1
First Name
Gerhard
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1956 (±1 yr) 385
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
23 November 1975 354
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds, received in action during the Battle of Ebo. His armoured car was hit in the turret and he jumped out of the vehicle. A sniper shot him in the stomach and although he was taken to the hospital at Cela and was successfully operated on, he died later from complications
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance 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
Northern Cape 808
Cemetery
KANONEILAND (BLAAUWSKOP) CEMETERY 1
Grave Reference
Body not recovered 1
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. H. J. Vollgraaff, of Kanoneiland.

Research notes

MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48727 ("Vollgraaf") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (72449325BC) and DateDeath (1975-11-23), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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