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Identity
Person No.
32830
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
David Johannes Philippus
Initials
D J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,734
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Killed in aircraft accident, crashed near Thaba Zimbi, in AT-6 Harvard #7291
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,839
South African Defence Force
Notes

ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 79873006SC cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '79' implies registration circa 1979 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1963. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1940, a mismatch; PersonNumber 32829 (Scholtz, implied birth circa 1963) fits instead. Original value: "79873006SC".
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.
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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