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Identity
Person No.
31450
Service No.
93778223
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
L F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of Medical Reason, at Pietersburg, while off duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
SANDF 1,026
South African National Defence Force
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
Unit History
Notes

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "7 South African Infantry Battalion" → Maintenance Unit (SAWGP Unit); Regiment "SA Army" → Far North Command (SAWGP Regiment).
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 16 Sep 2026: 93778223 Private L.F. Mabatlo, Far North Command Maintenance Unit, died of disease in Pietersburg Hospital, age 34. SN/date/cause already matched. CONFLICTS flagged, not changed: Graham age 34 vs stored Age 32; stored FirstName "Ephraim Conright" does not match stored Initials "L F" -- pre-existing mismatch, not resolved here (possible FirstName contamination).
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 'Ephraim Conright' and Age 32 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 31448 down a contiguous run of 8 records -- this record's own LastName ('Mabatlo'), Initials ('L F'), ServiceNo ('93778223') and DateDeath ('1998-09-16') 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 ('Maintenance Unit') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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