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Identity
Person No.
32289
Service No.
97247290
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
D L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died at Pretoria from gunshot wounds inflicted by unknown parties while off duty
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unknown
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
Role at time of death
Infantry (Air Assault)
Status
Permanent Force (Regular)
Part of
Listed under South African Army Infantry (Air Assault) (Regular) in the SA Army Units navbox.
Notes

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "SA Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("6 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 'Pumlani' and Age 24 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 32288 down a contiguous run of 4 records -- this record's own LastName ('Nkosi'), Initials ('D L'), ServiceNo ('97247290') and DateDeath ('1998-03-05') 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 ('6 South African Infantry Battalion') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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