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Identity
Person No.
38636
Service No.
19420
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
J H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, bayonet wounds, in a contact at Mount Darwin
Military Service
Rank
Constable
Secondary Unit
Police
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Notes

ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

Research notes

Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
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 'John Hamill', Age 49 and Unit 'Support Unit' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 38635 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Mhizha'), Initials ('J H'), ServiceNo ('19420') and DateDeath ('1973-09-22') 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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