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Identity
Person No.
31485
Old ROH no.
35251
Service No.
94801941PE
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
Unknown
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed by assualt, at Bhekizulu. Member went missing on 5-June-2001 during Op Pother. Remains found on 22-Aug-2001. SAPS investigating
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,041
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Part of
Notes

see NOCANDA

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "121 South African Infantry Battalion" → Group 9 (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
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".
14 Oct 2026: FirstName "First Name Unknown" cleared -- a literal placeholder string, not a real name, treated as blank per John's instruction extending the Khaile (31046) fix. Initials cleared too, having been equally corrupted to the placeholder "F N U".
14 Oct 2026: AGE-SHARING CLUSTER NOTED, NOT CLEARED. Age 24 shared with Magina (31486), Magolego (31488) and Magoro (31489) -- a fragmented run broken only by Magoai (31487, blank age) -- the same forward-fill signature as previous confirmed catches, but no concurrent source gives a replacement figure for any of the four, so Age is left as found pending a decision on this wider sweep.
14 Oct 2026: CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION, CLEARED (not replaced -- no concurrent source gives a figure). Age 24 was shared identically with Magina (31486), Magolego (31488) and Magoro (31489), a fragmented run broken only by Magoai (31487, blank age) -- the same forward-fill signature as previous confirmed catches.
14 Oct 2026: SAWGP independently confirms this record carries no given name either (SAWGP's own "Given Name" field is also "First Name Unknown") -- the clearing above matches the primary source, not a loss of real data.
14 Oct 2026: SAWGP's Regiment "GROUP 9" matches this record's own Unit "Group 9" -- apparently transposed against SAWGP's field convention, not restructured, flagged as an observation. Age already cleared as confirmed contamination (see 14 Oct note above).

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