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Identity
Person No.
32745
Old ROH no.
1234
Service No.
P47567
Last Name
First Name
Louis Johannes Lodewyk
Initials
L J L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, struck ground in steep dive, while undergoing a test flight after a service, 13 miles NE of Bloemspruit, on the farm Elim, in AT-6 Harvard #7049
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Air Mechanic
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,825
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mr. G. R. B. Rothman, of Welkom. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "8 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
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.

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