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Identity
Person No.
32755
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Nicholas Charles Alexander (nick)
Initials
N C A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died on 106th floor, of the World Trade Center, Tower 1 (North Tower)
Military Service
Notes

Son of Judy Rowe, of Johannesburg, South Africa. A native of South Africa, Nick Rowe told friends he had come to the U.S. in part because it was safer than his homeland. He was comfortable and confident and competent in virtually any business and social situation, said Adiathia Padala, chief executive officer of Rowe's employer, UmeVoice Inc., a voice recognition system for Wall Street traders. "He dealt with the very high-end Wall Street customers," Padala said. "He would walk into the room and get people to smile. It didn't matter what kind of people they were." Rowe, 29, of Hoboken, N.J., had worked at UmeVoice for nearly four years and had been in the U.S. for several years before that. He liked to play rugby and snow ski. Padala had pegged him to open the company's London office next year, which thrilled Rowe. "I'm going to miss a lot of things about him," Padala said, "but mostly it's his confident smile, his voice at the other end of the line." Rowe was on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower setting up a display at a trade show. Padala had lost his keys before they arrived and went looking for them instead of accompanying Rowe to set up the exhibit. "Oh, don't worry about it," Padala recalled Rowe saying, "I'll take care of it." His body may have been repatriated to South Africa after being found in rubble.

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "8th Infantry" → Risk Waters Group conference attendee from UmeVoice Inc. (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '70747' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 32754 to 32755 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (32754, Roux, Henry Hough (H H)). 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.

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