Stoop , Stephanus Petrus (S P)

7 Sep 2026: Regiment/Unit fields were combined ("32 (Buffalo) Battalion, "P" Bty."); split so Regiment holds only the battalion and Unit holds the battery, same fix as PN 29824/the Romeo Mike Team cluster. | Gunners Association RoH lists them (South African Border War 1988 Gunner S.P. Stoop) - https://www.gunners.org.za/home-2/roll-of-honour/
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added -- database-wide sweep for SADF Border War operational-area deaths within the medal's gazetted window (25 Jun 1976 - 27 Apr 2003), per the warrant's died-before-qualifying-period provision. See PersonAward.Citation for the gazette references.
14 Sep 2026: Pro Patria Medal added earlier today REVERTED -- John obtained the actual Government Gazette (GG 5171/5575); the "died before completing the qualifying period" provision relied on does not exist in the primary text (it was a secondary-source claim). Actual Rule 5 requires (a) combat/enemy-caused incident, (b) a Ministerially-acknowledged operation (clasp), or (c) 55+ continuous/90+ non-continuous days in an operational area -- none of which this record's cause of death clearly demonstrates.
National Gunners' Memorial, Potchefstroom (photograph supplied by John, 16 Sep 2026): listed as "GNR S.P. STOOP", rank and initials confirmed. CONFLICT flagged, not changed: the memorial groups him under the **1987** heading, while the stored DateDeath is 1988-02-01. Not resolved -- memorial year groupings may follow a different convention (e.g. the operational tour), or one of the two is wrong.
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".