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Identity
Person No.
39028
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Raymond Vivian James
Initials
R V J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Military Aircraft Accident, when Auster J5 # SR 53 struck a cable across the Hunyani river, south of Salisbury
Military Service
Rank
Lieutenant
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

ref. "Pride of Eagles" - History of the Rhodesian Air Force 1920 - 1980 by B Salt

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '114666' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39026 to 39028 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39026, Carroll, Tony Charles (T C)). 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.

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

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