In Memory Of

DORFLING, JAN DIRKSIE LAWRENCE

Service Details
Age:
 19
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 84574821BG
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
Unit:
 2 South African Infantry Battalion
Regiment:
 South African Infantry Corps
Date of Death:
 1988-02-29
Date of Death 2:
 1990-03-13
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Body not recovered
Cemetery:
 SADF WALL OF REMEMBRANCE, VOORTREKKER MONUMENT, PRETORIA
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorfling