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Identity
Person No.
34901
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Harper 12
First Name
William Thomas
Initials
W T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1882 (±1 yr) 386
Age at Death
45
Death Record
Date of Death
24 July 1927 104
Cause code
DUTY 1,421
Died on duty
Cause of Death
Died on duty (SAP) 1,378
Died in the execution of his duty as a member of the South African Police
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Claremont 14
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
South Africa 23,862
Locality
Gauteng 9,374
Cemetery
JOHANNESBURG (BRIXTON) CEMETERY 455
Grave Reference
Police Sec Grave 15 1
Coordinates
-26.19806, 28.01538 OSM
Notes

Husband of Helen Harper, of Jeppestown, Johannesburg. Born New Zealand. Joined Police January 1906

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '466616-0' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 34900 to 34902 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (34900, Harmse, Wesley James (S K)). 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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External References
Stories 2
on 25 November 2002 · via source
Killed in a Contact 2002-11-25 09:04:39 <a href="main.php?page=
on 05 February 2008 · via source
Sien ook persoon 34900. Petrus was 'n troep in my Kompanie (Echo), hy was in Pelaton 2 saam met my broer Kpl Simon Duvenage, insident 18/04/1988, Angola. Altyd op sy plek. Lt J.H.Duvenage
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