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Identity
Person No.
29567
Service No.
P206376
Last Name
First Name
William Desmond Benjamin
Initials
W D B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,735
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, engine failure, crashed at Tooth Rock Range near Saldanha, in Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE #5606
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 28 against this record's 19. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
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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