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Identity
Person No.
40663
Service No.
67728626E
Last Name
First Name
Abraham Adriaan Antonius
Initials
A A A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Cause code
NAT 765
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of heart attack, at Zeerust
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Warrant Officer Class II
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,874
South African Defence Force
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
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

Husband of Mrs. A. E. J. de Klerk, of Zeerust.

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: attachment attd. 2 Special Service Battalion.
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Catering Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 22 Sep 2026: "67728626E Warrant Officer Class II Abraham Adriaan Antonius De Klerk from the Army Catering Corps collapsed and died after suffering a fatal heart [attack] at Zeerust. He was 38." ServiceNo suffix E added (same digits). UNIT CONFLICT flagged, not changed: Graham gives the Army Catering Corps, this record 2 Special Service Battalion.

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