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Identity
Person No.
29620
Old ROH no.
34813
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
George
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received during Rand Revolt, at Dunswart
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Secondary Unit
452 Parachute Battalion
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Part of
Transvaal Scottish, formed 1902 after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment through WWI, WWII (2nd/3rd Bns raised 1936/1939) and the Border War. Renamed Solomon Mahlangu Regiment 2019. Needs further research to break out exact era boundaries/role changes (e.g. 1953 and 1997 battalion amalgamations) as sources are found.
Notes

Born Scotland. A clerk

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '322' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 29618 to 29620 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29618, Brown, David (D)). 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.

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