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Identity
Person No.
33785
Service No.
11544031
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
E W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 384
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed Suicide, at Waterkloof. Drank pills
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Sergeant
Unit
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
Unit History
Notes

Ref SANDF 1998 RoH

Research notes


25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Air Force" 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 "Air Force".
Database-wide FirstName/Age/Unit contamination sweep, 28 Sep 2026 (John's hypothesis, tested and confirmed on 3 sample groups before running at scale): FirstName 'Hepute', Age 21 and Unit 'South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Wing: Ops-K Division (KOEVOET)' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 33784 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Walker'), Initials ('E W'), ServiceNo ('11544031') and DateDeath ('1998-04-28') are all genuinely distinct from every other record in the run, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age/Unit were simply never captured (source pattern consistent with a SAPS memorial table using rowspan for Name/Age/Province, mis-copied by the scraper onto every row). FirstName, Age and Unit CLEARED; no replacement guessed. CauseDeath NOT touched -- it follows its own, narrower sub-block boundaries within this run and carries real distinguishing information.

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