ref. "The Covert War" by Peter Stiff
Cleared stolen ServiceNo 81290850BG (belongs to Hall P. PN 30599, 61 Mech, 1981-03-02).
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 23 Sep 2026: "Special Sergeant Frans Hamakali from the South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (Koevoet) was Killed in Action during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland. He was 34." CONTAMINATION FOUND AND CORRECTED -- this record had taken THREE fields from the record above it. It read FirstName "Peter", Initials "P" and Age 19, every one of which belongs to PersonNumber 30599, Rifleman Peter Hall of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group, who died in 1981 aged 19. A forename, its initial and an age all matching the neighbouring record exactly is the forward-fill signature, not coincidence.
- Graham supplies the true values: forename FRANS, age 34, and the rank SPECIAL SERGEANT rather than Sergeant. Applied rather than merely flagged, because the stored values are demonstrably another man's and an independent source gives the replacements. Date, force and unit were already right.
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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Graham Last Post 23 Sep 2026
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Koevoet Wall of Remembrance
open source ↗
Koevoet Wall of Remembrance
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
open source ↗
War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 54-56 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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