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Identity
Person No.
33279
Service No.
97260079
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
M S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DROW 1,203
Drowned
Cause of Death
Drowned in a swimming pool at Army Battle School
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Memorial
Memorial
Location
On a koppie at the Voortrekker Monument, overlooking Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "8 South African Infantry Battalion" → Army Battle School (SAWGP Unit).
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "SA Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("Army Battle School") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
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".
Database-wide FirstName/Age contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Harold William' and Age 18 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 33278 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Thulare'), Initials ('M S'), ServiceNo ('97260079') and DateDeath ('1998-10-17') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('Army Battle School') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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