Van Der Berg , Jan Gabriel Johannes (J G J)

MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48751 ("Van der Berg") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (80563422BG) and DateDeath (1983-02-04), surname a spelling/OCR/case variant, confirmed via the pantser.cmvo.org.za SADF deaths PDF cross-check. Same class of error as the Sekonjela/Sekonyela merge earlier the same day. DATE DISCREPANCY 25 Aug 2026: pantser.cmvo.org.za's SADF deaths PDF gives this person's Sterf (date of death) as "02 04 83" (DD MM YY) against the same ServiceNo (80563422BG) and name -- differs from this record's DateDeath (1983-02-04). Not overwritten, flagged for reference.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Army". 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.