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Identity
Person No.
30404
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Floris
Initials
F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, whilst on peace-keeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Flight Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SANDF 1,019
South African National Defence Force
Awards
United Nations Mission in the DR Congo Medal (MONUC/MONUSCO)
United Nations
United Nations Mission in the DR Congo Medal (MONUC/MONUSCO), awarded for qualifying service with the SANDF peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Automatically applied 7 Sep 2026 to all SANDF personnel in this database who died while serving on that mission (DateDeath >= 1999, when MONUC was instituted).
Notes

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Research notes

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.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '01211085' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 30403 to 30404 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (30403, Gerber, Dormehl (D)). 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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