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Identity
Person No.
33808
Service No.
96704887 PR
Last Name
First Name
Justin Trevor
Initials
J T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 388
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed suicide, by shooting himself with R4 rifle at Shooting Range
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sapper
Unit
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
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Unit leftover "4 Survey and Mapping Regiment" (a named regiment, not a sub-unit) moved to Regiment. Corps unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Navy" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". 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.
14 Oct 2026: CONFIRMED CONTAMINATION, CORRECTED. FirstName "Edward" and Age 34 were both copied from the immediately preceding record, Waters, Edward (33807, Air Force Gymnasium, died 1964, unrelated) -- the two adjacent records shared an identical Age (34), the classic forward-fill signature, and this record's own Initials "J T" never matched "Edward" in the first place. Mike Sandham OMISSIONS: 11 OCTOBER flagged exactly this ("Person # 33808 First name/Age contaminated by 33807?") and supplies the correct figures via Bushwar Books' 22 March post: "Justin Trevor Watkins...found dead on the Heidelberg Shooting Range with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head...He was 19" -- FirstName and Age applied here, matching Initials "J T" exactly. DATE CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record's own DateDeath is 1996-10-11, but TWO independent sources agree it should be 1997-03-20 -- Bushwar Books ("20 Mar 1997") and the separate War In Angola Information Portal Roll of Honour Member Dedications (http://www.warinangola.com/default.aspx?tabid=1596&Parameter=3445 "Date of Death = 1997/03/20"). This is a strong two-source conflict against this roll's single stored date; EstBirthYear above is computed against the EXISTING stored DateDeath (1996) to avoid compounding an unconfirmed date change. Flagged prominently for John's decision.

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