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Identity
Person No.
32920
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Shikulo 1
First Name
Simeon
Initials
S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1954 (±1 yr) 318
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
10 September 1987 109
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,654
Killed in action, during a contact with SWAPO/PLAN insurgents in Northern Owamboland. Member of Koevoet
Military Service
Rank
Special Sergeant
Regiment
South West African Police 158
Unit
South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET) 214
Secondary Unit
Police
Defence Force
SWAPOL 159
South West African Police
Location
Country
South Africa 23,873
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
UNKNOWN CEMETERY 3,272
Grave Reference
Likely buried in Namibia - Alternative Commemoration until grave found 135
Notes

ref. "The Covert War" by Peter Stiff

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 10 Sep 2026 / Bushwar Books Lest We Forget 10 September (https://www.warbooks.co.za/posts/lest-we-forget-10-september/ Special Sergeant Simeon Shikulo, South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing Ops-K (Koevoet), KIA contact SWAPO/PLAN Northern Owamboland, age 28. CauseDeath enriched with Northern Owamboland and SWAPO/PLAN contact (previously generic "Counter-insurgency duty in South West Africa"). Force already SWAPOL; Unit/Rank matched. CONFLICT flagged, not changed: Graham+Bushwar age 28 vs stored Age 33 (EstBirthYear 1954). ServiceNo 94678927 left. Bushwar Books same-day post matches Graham on this entry.

10 Sep 2026: John decision - keep Age 33 (EstBirthYear 1954). Graham Last Post age 28 left as conflict only.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 28 against this record's 33. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '94678927' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 32918 to 32920 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (32918, Shezi, Mathews Tinyika (S S)). 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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