Desenga (R)

SADF Wall of Remembrance (Voortrekker Monument): named on photograph "1978 SAA (Castleâ€"Havenga, Mennigkeâ€"Wolfgang)". 1978 Army. Left column. 11th name from the top (Desenga R.).
5 Sep 2026, FirstName-contamination revisit (folding into the 31 Aug 2026 scan): SADF Wall of Remembrance names him "Desenga R." -- initial only, matching stored Initials "R" exactly. Cleared rather than guessed -- correct first name still unknown.

10 Sep 2026: Renamed away from 31 (Bushman) Battalion label; Unit set by Mike Sandham dating rule (31 Bn outside 1 Aug 1980-1 Jun 1989 window, else 201 Bn).
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 20 against this record's 24. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '14294' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 30050 to 30051 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (30050, Deretich, Mark (M)). 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.
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".