Reitz , Claude Michael Deneys (C M D)

War In Angola Roll of Honour (warinangola.com, tabid=1175), page 1 of 143: lists a "Reitz L.M.D., 4 Squadron SAAF, 1952-09-02" — possible match for this record (same squadron, same week — 1952-09-03; ROH initials C M D) but initials do not match well enough to merge; no ServiceNo given to confirm. Left unmerged.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 1 Sep 2026 gives Lt C.M.D. Reitz's date of death as 1 Sep 1952 -- the same day as De Jongh (PersonNumber 29978), his mid-air collision partner. CONFLICT: ROH's stored DateDeath is 1952-09-03, two days later, which is hard to reconcile with a shared mid-air collision. Not changed pending a source that resolves it -- flagged for manual review.
Mike Sandham 3 Sep 2026 omissions (SAWGP): Lt Claude Michael Deneys Reitz, 4 Sqdn SAAF, AT-6 Harvard #7120 mid-air with #7033 near Barberton — Sandham lists under 3 Sep 1952 (age 29; 1952/09/03 on headstone) but flags Incorrect Date: saairforce.co.za attrition summaries give Date=1 Sep 1952 for serial 7120 (same accident as Capt Robert Edmund de Jongh 29978, already DateDeath 1952-09-01). CONFLICT: ROH/SAWGP/headstone 1952-09-03 vs attrition + Graham 1 Sep 2026 Last Post 1952-09-01. DateDeath left 1952-09-03 pending a source that resolves both pilots to one calendar day.
5 Sep 2026: Unit "4 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '59342' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 32657 to 32660 -- 4 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (32657, Reeves, Kenneth Arthur (K A)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.
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.