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Identity
Person No.
40805
Service No.
200324
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MURD 462
Murdered
Cause of Death
Murdered, while on leave, at Gutu
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Auxiliary Constable
Secondary Unit
Att 102 Battalion
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry, later Mechanised Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Part of
Regiment de la Rey, established 1934 as one of the new Afrikaans-language Citizen Force units of the Union Defence Force. Renamed General de la Rey Regiment; one of only six mechanised units in the SANDF Reserve Force as of the post-1994 period.
Notes

ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood)

Research notes

Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour). 26 Aug 2026: Corps from SAWGP Regiment South African Infantry Corps; Unit leftover "1st Regt." → Regiment De la Rey (SAWGP Unit).
Database-wide FirstName/Age contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Graham' and Age 35 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 40804 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Kanosi'), Initials ('D'), ServiceNo ('200324') and DateDeath ('1979-04-08') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('Regiment De la Rey') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

Citations

***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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