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Identity
Person No.
32497
Service No.
95097176
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
R
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 Burgersfort, while AWOL
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
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
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 ("Med Serv") 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 'Thabiso Anthon' and Age 19 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 32495 down a contiguous run of 3 records -- this record's own LastName ('Phokane'), Initials ('R'), ServiceNo ('95097176') and DateDeath ('1998-12-12') 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 ('Med Serv') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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