Service Details
Name:
 VAN NIEKERK
Given Name:
 DEON
Initials:
 D
Service No:
 80318199BG
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 Northern Transvaal Command
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Unit:
 Provost Unit
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Date of Death:
 1985-03-07
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Date of Birth:
 1964-12-07
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in Freak Accident, while on official traffic control duty during a military exercise. A large truck filled with tons of builders gravel jack-knifed on the Old Johannesburg Road and overturned in the area where he had been doing duty. His body was only discovered two days later when the builders gravel was removed.
Additional
Information:
No additional information known at this time
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:
 Alternative Commemoration until grave found

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