Born in Zimbabwe and brought up in South Africa before joining the British Army in April 2002. Also served in Iraq, and on exercises in Norway, Belize and the US, and was deployed to Afghanistan on operations in September 2006. He was the 50th British solider to die in Afghanistan. He went to a Somerset West Private School, where he was head boy, and went on to Stellenbosch University, where he was a student representative council spokesperson.
26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "29 Cdo Regt" → 29 Commando Regiment (SAWGP Unit).
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '135411' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 29761 to 29762 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (29761, Clark, Ian Birkett (I B)). 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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