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Identity
Person No.
38869
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Ian
Initials
I
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
52
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 751
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of Medical Reason, heart attack
Military Service
Rank
Dentist
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Notes

Born in South Africa. Amendments from Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981, by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Rhodesian Army Medical Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'PR75801' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 38868 to 38869 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (38868, Allan, Brian John Fraser (B J F)). 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

***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

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