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Identity
Person No.
29703
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
John Charles
Initials
J C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,467
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Unit History
Home Unit
Attached To
Role at time of death
Infantry (1st Bn); 2nd Bn converted to armour 1939-45 as 6th Reconnaissance Regiment, SA Tank Corps (Egypt)
Status
Active Citizen Force
Part of
WWII-only split: 1st Battalion fought as infantry; 2nd Battalion converted to armour, later amalgamated with 4th Armoured Car Regiment as 4th/6th ACR. Not a permanent whole-regiment Corps change. No SADF-era (1974-92) brigade attachment found in available sources -- left unrecorded rather than guessed.
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Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '? 6060508' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 29702 to 29703 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29702, Carstensen, Herman Ernst (H E)). 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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