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Identity
Person No.
39213
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Cyprian Edward
Initials
C E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
37
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Imad
Military Service
Rank
Major
Secondary Unit
1 Commando
Defence Force
IND 36
Indian forces
Unit History
Notes

Son of the Rev. Neville Borton, Vicar of Burwell, Cambs. Born Barkly, Griqualand West, South Africa. Educated at Felsted School and Selwyn College. Served in South African War (Queen's Medal with 3 clasps)

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '727333' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39212 to 39213 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39212, Diedericks, Christopher (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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