ref. 85 years of SAAF
Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 1 Sep 2026: Airman J.S. Marais, Air Force Gymnasium, military motor vehicle accident in Potgieter Street, Pretoria, age 19. CauseDeath filled in from Graham's account (previously the generic placeholder 'Died on active service'). CONFLICT: ROH's stored Unit is '2 Squadron', not Air Force Gymnasium -- not changed, flagged for manual review.
5 Sep 2026: Unit "2 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
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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SADF.info Border Roll of Honour
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SADF.info Border RoH
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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The War in Angola
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War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), pages 114-116 of 143: confirmed, no changes.
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