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Identity
Person No.
31820
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Archibald
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Thring's Post, during Bambatha / Zulu Rebellion of 1906
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Notes

Son of Neil and Helen McInnnes, of Edinburgh, Scotland

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 95246336PV cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '95' implies registration circa 1995 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1979. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1865, a mismatch; PersonNumber 31819 (McHunu, implied birth circa 1977) fits instead. Original value: "95246336PV".
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Navy" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". 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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