He was a Bomb Disposal expert from Durban Security Police. ref. Gallantry Awards of the South African Police 1913-1994
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 'Robert Leslie (bobbie)', Age 49 and Unit 'Durban Security Police' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 38234 down a contiguous run of 4 records -- this record's own LastName ('Wentzel'), Initials ('B J'), ServiceNo ('430871-9') and DateDeath ('1999-03-08') 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.
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South African Police Memorial
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South African Police Memorial, Union Buildings, Pretoria (1984).
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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