Husband of Mrs. O. N. van der Merwe. | Passenger 68091503N LS Ivan William Kearns critically injured; died in hospital 15 Aug 1973.
MERGE 25 Aug 2026: PersonNumber 48743 ("Van der Merwe") deleted as a duplicate of this record -- identical ServiceNo (65942179E) and DateDeath (1973-08-10), 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.
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, "Navy". 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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Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 10 Aug 2026.
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