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Identity
Person No.
31766
Service No.
P1/41826
Last Name
First Name
Leslie James
Initials
L J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, engine failure crashed near Germiston, in AT-6 Harvard #7193. Pilot bailed out but parachute failed to open
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mrs. McDonald, of Hospital Hill, Johannesburg. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "40 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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