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Identity
Person No.
33015
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Henry
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
44
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,732
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Murdered, he accompanied his labourers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That night, a servant handed him a note whilst he was sitting on his verandah. As he turned to the lamp light to read it, he was stabbed to death
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Notes

Husband of Sarah Ann Smith. He had 6 children. Born Pinetown in 1862. An Umlaas Road farmer and popular master. In the subsequent trial the servant admitted that he had resented paying his tax, and had killed his master for that reason

Research notes

SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (daily-post corroboration): ServiceNo PX/24862 cleared -- PersonNumber 33014 (Smith, George James) has this number explicitly confirmed by a Graham Last Post / Mike Sandham / Bushwar Books citation already on file, and this record's copy conflicts with it (different name, different DateDeath). Original value: "PX/24862".
John Dovey, 1 Sep 2026: Unit ("35 Squadron (Colonial)") and Unit2 ("Air Force") cleared -- anachronistic contamination, apparently copied from the neighbouring record PersonNumber 33014 (Smith, George James, a genuine 1963 SAAF 35 Squadron airman) at some point before the 27 Aug 2026 numbered-squadron Force-split pass, which then correctly bucketed this record into the '(Colonial)' variant per its own Force value without noticing the underlying Unit assignment made no sense for an 1862-1906 civilian murder victim decades before any SAAF squadron existed. Regiment (Natal Carbineers) not changed -- plausible for a Natal farmer of this era (see PersonNumber 29741, also Natal Carbineers, killed in the same 1906 Bambatha Rebellion period) and not part of the anachronistic contamination.

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