Cameron (R)

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 80830458SP cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '80' implies registration circa 1980 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1964. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1961, a mismatch; PersonNumber 29686 (Cambinda, implied birth circa 1962) fits instead. Original value: "80830458SP". 26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "32 (Buffalo) Battalion" → South African Medical Service (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit); Regiment "SA Army" → South African Medical Service (SAWGP Regiment).
13 Sep 2026: Pinetown Roll of Honour confirms exactly by date: L/Cpl "R. Cameron", died 09-02-1983 -- their 1992 research found no SADF record under this initial; this record's fuller name (Antonio Luis) was evidently found from elsewhere. Named on the Wayside Cross, Pinetown.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
Database-wide FirstName/Age/Unit contamination sweep, 28 Sep 2026 (John's hypothesis, tested and confirmed on 3 sample groups before running at scale): FirstName 'Antonio Luis', Age 22 and Unit '' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 29685 down a contiguous run of 3 records -- this record's own LastName ('Cameron'), Initials ('R'), ServiceNo ('') and DateDeath ('1983-02-09') are all genuinely distinct from every other record in the run, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age/Unit were simply never captured (source pattern consistent with a SAPS memorial table using rowspan for Name/Age/Province, mis-copied by the scraper onto every row). FirstName, Age and Unit CLEARED; no replacement guessed. CauseDeath NOT touched -- it follows its own, narrower sub-block boundaries within this run and carries real distinguishing information.
CORRECTION, 28 Sep 2026: the earlier note on this record wrongly described Unit as forward-filled/contaminated alongside FirstName and Age. On review, Unit values proved to be common, genuinely correct data shared by many unrelated real people throughout this dataset (e.g. 'Western Cape' alone appears on 195 scattered, unrelated records with 111 distinct surnames) -- Unit was NOT part of this contamination and has been RESTORED from the pre-sweep backup. FirstName and Age remain correctly cleared -- both were 100% correlated across every contaminated run and independently confirmed absent on SAWGP's own record for spot-checked samples.