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Identity
Person No.
33119
Service No.
78205796BG
Last Name
First Name
Wernicht Francois
Initials
W F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Notes

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Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Corps from SAWGP Regiment South African Infantry Corps; Unit leftover "3 South African Infantry Battalion" → 1 South African Infantry Battalion (SAWGP Unit).
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("1 South African Infantry Battalion") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Rank, RankID -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: ServiceNo CORRECTED 90073818BG -> 78205796BG. The stored number was contamination, not a reading of this man's record: PersonNumbers 33118 to 33119 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number 90073818BG, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33118, Steyn, Ralph Jeffrey (R J)). A value repeated down a consecutive block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number. Mike's log supplies a different and plausible number for this man specifically, so the stored value is known-wrong regardless of whether the replacement proves exact. The displaced value is recorded here.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".

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