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Identity
Person No.
30856
Service No.
P1/32467
Last Name
First Name
Claude Stanley
Initials
C S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
38
Death Record
Cause code
NAT 760
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of cardiac failure, in Johannesburg General Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of Nevinson and Harriet Aurelia Jenkinson. Husband of Mary Ellen (nee Clow) Jenkinson. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

Unit was incorrectly set to "32 (Buffalo) Battalion" (a SADF unit not formed until 1975) — impossible for this pre-1975 death. Found and cleared 27 Aug 2026 while investigating a family correction email about PersonNumber 31346 (Lipschild), which had the same wrong Unit; a further check found 22 other pre-1975 records sharing it. Root cause not identified (no source in this record names a unit at all beyond the generic Unit2 arm-of-service tag, or the Regiment already on file) — Unit left blank rather than guessed.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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