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Identity
Person No.
35394
Service No.
S160847R
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
L J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in a Motor Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
South African Police
Defence Force
SAP 3,731
South African Police
Memorial
Memorial
Location
In the gardens of the Union Buildings, on the eastern flank of the grounds, Pretoria
Address
Coordinates
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Notes

ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994

Research notes

Database-wide FirstName/Age/Unit contamination sweep, 28 Sep 2026 (John's hypothesis, tested and confirmed on 3 sample groups before running at scale): FirstName 'Abraham', Age 21 and Unit 'Durban' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 35390 down a contiguous run of 6 records -- this record's own LastName ('Lenka'), Initials ('L J'), ServiceNo ('S160847R') and DateDeath ('1975-12-20') are all genuinely distinct from every other record in the run, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age/Unit were simply never captured (source pattern consistent with a SAPS memorial table using rowspan for Name/Age/Province, mis-copied by the scraper onto every row). FirstName, Age and Unit CLEARED; no replacement guessed. CauseDeath NOT touched -- it follows its own, narrower sub-block boundaries within this run and carries real distinguishing information.
CORRECTION, 28 Sep 2026: the earlier note on this record wrongly described Unit as forward-filled/contaminated alongside FirstName and Age. On review, Unit values proved to be common, genuinely correct data shared by many unrelated real people throughout this dataset (e.g. 'Western Cape' alone appears on 195 scattered, unrelated records with 111 distinct surnames) -- Unit was NOT part of this contamination and has been RESTORED from the pre-sweep backup. FirstName and Age remain correctly cleared -- both were 100% correlated across every contaminated run and independently confirmed absent on SAWGP's own record for spot-checked samples.

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