Son of Mr. H. F. Bosch
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'P/53595' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 29512 to 29513 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29512, Bosch, Esias Engelbertus (E E)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
3 Oct 2026: ServiceNo 75351940BC filled (was blank), from Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post, 3 Oct 2026. UNIT CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record's Unit is stored as "44 Squadron" (an Air Force squadron); the source instead names "the South African Corps of Signals" -- Regiment left blank rather than filling a corps name that conflicts with the stored Unit.
3 Oct 2026: MERGED duplicate record 48926 (Bosch, Michael Dawid, same ServiceNo 75351940BC, same date and age 18) into this one. Mike Sandham (SAWGP) omissions email, 3 Oct 2026, flagged "Duplication - Same Person" and noted the headstone reads "Michael Dawid" (48926's spelling); this record carries "Michael David" -- both recorded, spelling variant not resolved. Discarded from 48926: Rank "Seaman" (contradicts Sandham's own "Signaller/Smn" reading and this record's Signalman), and its garbled CauseDeath ("PRETORIA MILITARY VEHICLE H. F. BOSCH FATHER", the father's name run into the cause column, same pattern as the Bartie merge). Gained from 48926: its SADF deaths PDF external source citation (see below). Unit "44 Squadron" conflict with the source's "South African Corps of Signals" still open, flagged previously.
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Bushwar Books - Lest We Forget
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Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 3 Oct 2026
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 3 Oct 2026
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Lys van Weermaglede wat aan diens gesterf het (SADF deaths, pantser.cmvo.org.za)
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SADF deaths PDF cross-check (merged from 48926), 25 Aug 2026
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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
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SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
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War In Angola Roll of Honour, pages 88-89: gives SN 75351940BC vs ROH P/53595 — confirmed match by name/date/rank, not overwritten, flagged for further verification.
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