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Identity
Person No.
35331
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Laing 9
First Name
Gerald Jack
Initials
G J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1963 (±1 yr) 330
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
12 November 1983 135
Cause code
DOAS 7,466
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service 6,447
Died on active service
Military Service
Rank
Unknown
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Bronkhorstspruit 8
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Location
Country
South Africa 23,874
Locality
Limpopo 190
Cemetery
MAKOPANE (OR POTGIETERSRUST) CEMETERY 20
Grave Reference
Alternative Commemoration until grave found 12
Coordinates
-24.17421, 29.02071 OSM
Notes

No additional information known at this time

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '441391-1' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 35329 to 35331 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (35329, Labuschagne). 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.

Citations
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External References
Stories 1
by John Dovey on 23 June 2009 · via source
Note by Major J. J. Hulme: (Died of wounds received in action on 28 December, 1852, aged 27 years.) This information appears from a tombstone in the Old Cemetery at Bloemfontein. The nature of the hostilities is not stated. 43rd Light Infantry was later 1st Bn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
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