Identity
Person No.
41727
Service No.
92688608PY
Last Name
First Name
Monageng Moses
Initials
M M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 388
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed suicide, while on guard duty. Shot himself through the heart with a R4 rifle
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,041
South African National Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Armour (Armoured Car)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Armour (Armoured Car) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox, and still serving, based at Tempe near Bloemfontein. Took part in Operation Boleas, the South African intervention in Lesotho, in 1998. Now equipped with the Rooikat 76 and the Ratel 90 and ZT3; under Project Hoefyster it is to receive the Denel Badger in missile and fire-support variants. Deployment strength about 1,000. In the draft Vision 2020 force design it is charted as the armoured car regiment of the Armoured Brigade (Free State), Mechanised Division. Its sister unit 2 SSB (OrgEntityID 2257) was demobilised on 30 August 1997, leaving 1 SSB one of only two full-time armoured regiments in the SA Army.
Notes
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Matlabe, of Sefutwelo Middle School, Skuinsdrif.
Research notes
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 25 Sep 2026: "92688608PY Lance Corporal Monageng Moses Matlabe from 1 Special Service Battalion died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the heart using his R4 rifle while he was standing guard duty. He was 28." Confirms the record word for word, down to the weapon and the guard duty. His unit, 1 Special Service Battalion, had its own history written onto this roll yesterday (OrgEntity 2221).
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External References
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 25 Sep 2026
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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