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Identity
Person No.
35005
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Sydney Herbert Keith
Initials
S H K
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Mr. Henry Hosking's farm 'Trewergie', near present day Baynesfield, trying to arrest Mlongo, the leader of the resisters, during Bambatha / Zulu Rebellion of 1906
Military Service
Rank
Sub Inspector
Secondary Unit
Police
Defence Force
Unknown
Notes

Husband of Agnes James Hunt, of 28 Berg Street, Pietermaritzburg. They had four children. Hunt received a QSA and KSA with the Natal Police during the Anglo Boer War

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '414603-4' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 35004 to 35006 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (35004, Hunt, Jan Jonathan (D A)). 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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