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Identity
Person No.
39414
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Barrington John
Initials
B J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,586
Accident
Cause of Death
Died of injuries, multiple injuries, received in motor accident at Guinea Fowl, near Gwelo
Military Service
Rank
Pilot
Corps
Rhodesian Air Force
Secondary Unit
"F" Coy.
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Unit History
Notes

Born in South Africa. 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


5 Sep 2026: Regiment/Unit swapped -- "Thornhill AFB" (the specific squadron) moved to Regiment; "Rhodesian Air Force" (the force-wide designation) moved to Unit, per John's decision.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'PR100416' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39413 to 39415 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39413, Heard, Alan David (A D)). 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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