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Identity
Person No.
30267
Service No.
EA/18124988
First Name
Johnnie
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Cause code
DOAS 7,467
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

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Research notes

Unit was incorrectly set to "32 (Buffalo) Battalion" (a SADF unit not formed until 1975) — impossible for this pre-1975 death. Found and cleared 27 Aug 2026 while investigating a family correction email about PersonNumber 31346 (Lipschild), which had the same wrong Unit; a further check found 22 other pre-1975 records sharing it. Root cause not identified (no source in this record names a unit at all beyond the generic Unit2 arm-of-service tag, or the Regiment already on file) — Unit left blank rather than guessed. | Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 (second pass, this time verified against Cemetery rather than AddInfo text, after the first AddInfo-based pass was found to be unreliable and reverted). This person's own Cemetery is unambiguously outside South Africa; several other people at the same cemetery already correctly show a blank Locality. Cleared rather than guessed at a specific region.

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