Born Cape Province. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Cape Town, Plumstead Cemetery, Victoria.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 12 Sep 2026: Pupil Pilot Peter Donald John Gilchrist, No. 5 Flight Auxiliary Air Training Wing AFS Ysterplaat, Harvard 7354 mid-air with Piper Cruiser ZS-BIL (Mr J.H.A. Graue) Youngsfield, age 23. CauseDeath enriched with civilian aircraft and no-survivors. CONFLICTS flagged, not changed: FirstName Graham "Peter Donald John" vs stored "Donald John" (Initials D J); Rank Graham Pupil Pilot vs stored Air Mechanic. Unit 5 Aatw (3084) left as the Auxiliary Air Training Wing abbreviation. Civilian Graue added as RelatedDeath, linked here. Not on Bushwar same-day post.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '67541466' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 30422 to 30423 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (30422, Gijsbers, Cornelius Harry (C H)). 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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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 12 Sep 2026
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Cape Town, Plumstead Cemetery, Victoria
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
These people are not on the Roll of Honour. They are recorded here because of a family, service, or civilian connection.
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Graue, J.H.A. (J H A)
— Same aircraft accident
Civilian · 12 September 1953Killed when his civilian Piper Cruiser ZS-BIL collided in mid-air with SAAF Harvard 7354 (Pupil Pilot Peter Donald John Gilchrist) on the downwind leg at Youngsfield Airfield; both aircraft crashed, no survivors.
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