Gottlieb , Albertus (A)

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 10 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 10 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-10-september/ Rifleman Albertus Gottlieb, 101 Battalion SWATF, killed military vehicle accident Northern Owamboland, age 19. CONTAMINATION CLEAR: FirstName "Yaron", ServiceNo 4305808, AddInfo "Son of Leslie and Asher", and CauseDeath "Fell while on service in the defense of Israel" were forward-filled from neighbour Gottesman PN 30503 (Israeli Defence Forces, Givati Brigade, 1985-02-16). Cleared those; FirstName set to Albertus (Graham + Bushwar agree; Initials A already fit). Age corrected 18 -> 19 (stored 18 matched Gottesman; Graham+Bushwar both 19; EstBirthYear 1961 -> 1960). Unit filled 101 Battalion (UnitID 313); Regiment already 101 Battalion; Force SADF; Corps SWATF left. Bushwar Books same-day post matches Graham on this entry.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.
21 Sep 2026: Regiment and Unit corrected 101 Battalion -> 35 Battalion. This man died on 1979-09-10, before the unit took the name 101 Battalion: it was designated 35 Battalion until the South West Africa Territory Force was established on 1 August 1980, a rename this roll already recorded in OrgEntityAlias. Prompted by Mike Sandham's correction of 20 Sep 2026 on Shangweni (32903), applied across every 1980 SWATF rename. The later name is not wrong as a way of identifying the unit today -- sources compiled afterwards routinely use it -- but it is not the name this man served under.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".