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Identity
Person No.
33964
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Norman Keith
Initials
N K
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Counter-insurgency duty in South West Africa. Member of Koevoet
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Abrahams, of Humansdorp. ***Not on SAP Memorial. ref. "The Covert War" by Peter Stiff

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '622031-2' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 33962 to 33964 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (33962, Abdol, Johnny (J)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

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