Brits , Gert Christoffel Petrus (G C P)

16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'P/46100' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41576 to 41587 -- 12 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41576, Glibert, Louis Claude Paul (L C P)). 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.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 28 Sep 2026: "Private Gert Christoffel Petrus Brits from the Union Defence Forces was found dead in Pretoria with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 33." Age and cause agree exactly.
- RANK CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record holds "Constable"; Graham gives "Private".
- FORCE/UNIT CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record holds AFB Waterkloof (SAAF); Graham gives "Union Defence Forces" (a name that had already been retired for the SADF by 1962, and gives no unit).
Mike Sandham (SAWGP) omissions email, 28 Sep 2026: "Rifleman Gert Christoffel Petrus Brits from the Union Defence Forces Committed suicide, bullet wound to the head, at Pretoria. Died en route to hospital. He was 33." Independently corroborates Graham's UDF/military framing (Rifleman is Sandham's rank word, Graham's was Private -- both infantry-enlisted, neither matches this record's stored 'Constable'/AFB Waterkloof, RANK/FORCE CONFLICT STILL NOT CHANGED). New detail not in Graham's post: died en route to hospital, rather than simply at Pretoria -- elaboration, not a contradiction, of the stored cause; CauseDeath left as-is pending a decision on whether to fold this in.