Tippett , Dave (D)

SASFA In Memoriam (operators KIA outside the SA Military context): confirmed operator; SASFA lists this death outside the SA military context — not treated as a new SADF/SANDF roll entry. SASFA: Tippet Dave KIA 1987. https://www.recce.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/4.1.-Memoriam.pdf SASFA Tippet Dave KIA 1987 outside SA military context. ROH DateDeath 1990-01-01 Special Forces KIA. Year left. 26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "102 Battalion" → Special Forces (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit). | Diedericks, André. Journey Without Boundaries: The operational life and experiences of a SA Special Forces Small Team Operator. Just Done Productions, Durban, 2007 (ISBN 978-1-920169-58-9): last saw Dave Tippet at Alldays during the Caudad (May 1986) helicopter insert; “Dave was killed in an operation a year later.” SASFA: Tippet Dave KIA 1987 (outside SA military context). This record’s DateDeath 1990-01-01 is a year-placeholder — not overwritten.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 16 Sep 2026: ServiceNo contamination flagged, not fixed: this record shares "81955734SWH" with three unrelated records (Kavari 31012 [now corrected], Tinda 33287 [confirmed genuine owner], Tischendorf 33289) despite an unrelated 1990 death date -- no source available yet for this record's correct ServiceNo.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '81955734SWH' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 33287 to 33289 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33287, Tinda, Timmy (J)). 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 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".