Service Details
Name:
 THOMAS
Given Name:
 JAMES ALLAN
Initials:
 J A
Service No:
 82532086PE
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South West African Territory Force
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Unit:
 701 Battalion
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Date of Death:
 1988-02-29
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Age:
 21
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
Decorations:
 Honoris Crux (Posthumous)
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:
 Panel 16 - Body not recovered.

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