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Identity
Person No.
31084
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Leslie Thomas
Initials
L T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in an aircraft accident, Wapiti #613, collided with Gypsy Moth ZS-ACW over the sea near Durban
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

Unit was contaminated with an unrelated Army/Navy unit -- same "85 years of SAAF" batch-import bug as the 32 infantry/artillery/commando cases fixed 28 Aug 2026. Cleared rather than guessed at a correct Unit.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '1377' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 31083 to 31084 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (31083, Kinniburgh, Robert John (R J)). 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.
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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