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Identity
Person No.
30791
Service No.
78912581SP
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died at Buffalo Base from unknown causes
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Awards
Pro Patria Medal
South Africa
Pro Patria Medal warrant, Government Gazette No. 5171 (25 Jun 1976), Rule 5, as amended by GG No. 5575 (3 Jun 1977); discontinued by GG No. 25213 (25 Jul 2003, Schedule corrected by GG No. 26778, 17 Sep 2004) for service on/after 27 Apr 2003. Gazette extracts: https://rohsa.co.za/award.php?id=24
Notes

ref "Die Buffel Struikel" by LJ Bothma

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 78912581SP cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '78' implies registration circa 1978 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1962. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1965, a mismatch; PersonNumber 30792 (Ismael, implied birth circa 1963) fits instead. Original value: "78912581SP".
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 6 Sep 2026: gives only "D Isaac" -- confirms the existing FirstName "Craig Murray" cannot be right (doesn't match stored Initial "D"; it was copied from the immediately preceding record, 30790 Irvine, whose own Initials "C M" genuinely match "Craig Murray"). Cleared rather than guessed, same pattern as the 32-record contamination batch fixed earlier today. ServiceNo 78912581SP restored -- a 25 Aug 2026 SN-correction pass had cleared this exact number from this record, reasoning via a year-prefix birth-year heuristic that it fit Ismael (30792) better. That reasoning is superseded here: today's post matches this record on every other field (Rank Rifleman, Initial D, exact DateDeath 1987-09-06, Regiment 32 Battalion, cause of death) while matching none of Ismael's (Initial P, DateDeath 1985-02-05, Regiment 101 Battalion) -- direct multi-field evidence outweighs the earlier birth-year estimate. Cleared from Ismael's record instead (see 30792). CauseDeath enriched with location "at Buffalo Base" (no conflict). NOT resolved: post gives age 38, this record has always shown 22 -- too large a gap to be a typo, flagged not overwritten.
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".

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