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Identity
Person No.
30249
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Carl Johannes
Initials
C J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in an air crash, at Roberts Heights, in Avro 621 Tutor #739
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Zwartkop Air Station
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 77633956BG cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '77' implies registration circa 1977 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1961. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1920, a mismatch; PersonNumber 30248 (Engeldoe, implied birth circa 1960) fits instead. Original value: "77633956BG". | Unit was contaminated with an unrelated Army/Navy unit -- same "85 years of SAAF" batch-import bug as the 32 infantry/artillery/commando cases fixed 28 Aug 2026. Cleared rather than guessed at a correct Unit.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Regiment -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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