Service Details
Name:
 DORFLING
Given Name:
 JAN DIRKSIE LAWRENCE
Initials:
 J D L
Service No:
 84574821BG
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
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Unit:
 2 South African Infantry Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1988-02-29
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Date of Death 2:
 1990-03-13
Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Died in Freak Accident, accidentally drowned with two others when they got into difficulties while swimming through one of the sluices at Cuquleti near the Calueque Dam. The Lieutenant jumped into a tube with a rope tied around it in an attempt to save the other two but the rope separated and he was also sucked into the sluice and drowned. Despite an intensive search over the next few weeks, only the body of Rifleman Howse was recovered. Lieutenant Thomas and Lance Corporal Dorfling have no known grave and remain unaccounted for. Declared dead on 13 March 1990
Additional
Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorfling
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
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Grave Reference:
 Body not recovered

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