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Identity
Person No.
30293
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Niklaas
Initials
N
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, crashed 2 miles east of Boane, near Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, while busy with rescue operations at the Umbeluzi Pumping Station, in Alouette III #56. They were lifting inflatable rubber boats used in rescue work when the load began swinging wildly and struck the tailrotor. 2 Mozambique Army Corporals and a Sergeant were also killed
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Sergeant
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
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Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '80884604SC' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 30292 to 30293 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (30292, Feris, Niklaas (N)). 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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