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Identity
Person No.
32693
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Walter
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
51
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, at Windhoek, South West Africa, in Alouette III #23. Aircraft struck power lines 7Km north of Windhoek and caught alight. Crew and passengers were killed during the subsequent emergency landing
Military Service
Rank
Mr
Regiment
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
Unknown
Notes

He was an employee at Ritters Garage in Windhoek, where OPF Ritter worked.

Research notes

Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 (second pass, this time verified against Cemetery rather than AddInfo text, after the first AddInfo-based pass was found to be unreliable and reverted). This person's own Cemetery is unambiguously outside South Africa; several other people at the same cemetery already correctly show a blank Locality. Cleared rather than guessed at a specific region.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '79521167BT' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 32689 to 32693 -- 4 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (32689, Riekert, Adriaan Gerhardus (A G)). 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.

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