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Identity
Person No.
38978
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Magara
Initials
R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
19
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,626
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Vehicle Accident
Military Service
Rank
Corporal
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Grave Reference
Unknown
Unit History
Notes

ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr JRT Wood)

Research notes


7 Sep 2026: GraveRef ("Cremated, ashes placed in brother's grave") is identical across 16 consecutive PersonNumbers with unrelated surnames and different actual cemeteries already on file -- cannot literally be true for 16 different people. Same forward-fill contamination pattern as the Mapai Puma 164 crash-site text (fixed 6 Sep 2026). Cleared rather than guessed; the real GraveRef value is unknown.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '644660' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 38977 to 38979 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (38977, Boyina, Magara (M)). 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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