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Identity
Person No.
33553
Service No.
89329676PE
First Name
Karl
Initials
K
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Vehicle Accident, at Olifantshoek. Members were on their way home from Exercise Southern Cross when a tyre burst and the vehicle overturned
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SANDF 1,025
South African National Defence Force
Location
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Research notes


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.

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