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Identity
Person No.
31316
Service No.
94852225
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died at Bloemfontein, shot by unknown parties, while AWOL
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Maseru, Lesotho
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Operation
Operation
Dates
1998-09
About
SANDF intervention in Lesotho, September 1998, to restore order after a disputed election and mutiny; involved combat against elements of the Lesotho Defence Force in Maseru.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry (Mechanised)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Infantry (Mechanised) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox.
Notes

ref. SANDF 1998 Roll of Honour

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Corps from SAWGP Regiment South African Infantry Corps; Unit leftover "1 Special Service Battalion" → 1 South African Infantry Battalion (SAWGP Unit).
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("1 South African Infantry Battalion") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
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".
Database-wide FirstName/Age contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Laurie Johannes (lollo)' and Age 19 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 31315 down a contiguous run of 3 records -- this record's own LastName ('Lesenyeho'), Initials ('M'), ServiceNo ('94852225') and DateDeath ('1998-10-03') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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