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Identity
Person No.
39385
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Tobias
Initials
T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,584
Accident
Cause of Death
Died in accidental explosion, at the Victoria Falls (Op Tangent) rifle range. While loading crates of anti-personnel mines onto a truck, there was an explosion, killing 7 men of the detail
Military Service
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Location
Notes

ref. "Rhodesian Roll of Honour" by P. Geldenhuys (Roll compiled by Dr. J. R. T. Wood). Amendments from "Rhodesian Combined Forces Roll of Honour 1966-1981", by Adrian Haggett and Gerry van Tonder.

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.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '662754' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39384 to 39385 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39384, Gwenezi, Silindile (S)). 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.

Citations

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

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