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Identity
Person No.
33255
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Peter Kay
Initials
P K
Date of Birth
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,735
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, collided in mid-air and collided with #7669 and crashed near Bloubergstrand, in AT-6 Harvard #7671
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026: ServiceNo 74542200BT cleared -- the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF lists that number under "THERON, PETRUS JOHANNES" (RFN, Sterf 08 05 85), matching PersonNumber 33254 (Theron, DateDeath 1985-05-08) by surname and exact date, not this record. Original value: "74542200BT". Left as an unresolved collision otherwise -- this correction is specific to this one PDF-confirmed case, not a general claim this record's other data is wrong. | Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Cape Town, Plumstead Cemetery, Victoria.
5 Sep 2026: Unit "7 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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