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Identity
Person No.
39335
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Peter
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, shot down in Mozambique (at Mapai). Believed to have been carrying explosives to be used in Operation Uric and hit by a RPG7 or AAA., in Aerospatiale SA3330 Puma C #164. Also killed was the SAAF aircrew and 14 Rhodesian soldiers
Military Service
Rank
Lance Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"C" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Notes

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Research notes

Geldenhuys, Prop. Rhodesian War Casualties. 3rd printing. JustDone / Lulu, 2009 (Rhodesia: Roll of Honour).
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Rhodesian Corps of Engineers" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 6 Sep 2026 (Mapai Puma 164 shootdown, Operation Uric): confirmed, all details already matched exactly.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 6 Sep 2026: today's fuller post gives ServiceNo 64081, differing from this record's 730167. All four Rhodesian Corps of Engineers casualties in this incident show a similar mismatch -- suggests a transcription issue in one source rather than one-off errors. Flagged, not overwritten.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '730167' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39333 to 39336 -- 4 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39333, Fourie, Lionel Barry (L B)). 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.
25 Sep 2026, Rhodesian squadron split: this record was moved from the combined entity "1 Squadron (RSF)" to "1 Squadron, Rhodesian Corps of Engineers". That entity held both the Rhodesian Air Force flying squadron and the Rhodesian Corps of Engineers squadron of the same number, which are unrelated units; it was created by a cleanup that split shared squadron names by Force alone, and Force does not separate two Rhodesian squadrons. This record is assigned on the evidence of its own Corps column naming the Rhodesian Corps of Engineers outright, not on the squadron number.

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***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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