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Identity
Person No.
33214
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Peter Albert Selby
Initials
P A S
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
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,828
South African Defence Force
Notes

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Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '94772126' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 33212 to 33214 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33212, Tantsi, Louis Guy (Z G)). 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.
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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