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Identity
Person No.
33899
Old ROH no.
1678
Service No.
76413947BC
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
G H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of bullet wound to the chest, suspected suicide
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,838
South African 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
Notes

Son of Mr. R. F. Trinkl, of Hope Street, Mountain View, Johannesburg. Born in Pretoria. B.Sc. M.B. B.H.

Research notes


Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: dates of death differ -- 1 day(s) apart: Mike 1979-10-14 this record 1979-10-15. A gap of a few days commonly separates wounding from death, or a burial date from a death date. Flagged, not changed.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: gives Age 19 against this record's 26. This record has no date of birth, so there is nothing to adjudicate with. Flagged, not changed.
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 contamination sweep (extension), 28 Sep 2026: FirstName 'Wolfgang Joachim' and Age 26 were forward-filled from PersonNumber 33898 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Wolhuter'), Initials ('G H'), ServiceNo ('76413947BC') and DateDeath ('1979-10-15') are all genuinely distinct, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age were simply never captured. Unlike the first pass of this sweep, Unit is NOT touched here -- it is not part of this contamination (see the Unit-restoration correction on the related run) and this record's own Unit ('1 South African Infantry Battalion') is left exactly as found. FirstName and Age CLEARED; no replacement guessed.

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