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Identity
Person No.
39420
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Herbert Spencer
Initials
H S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 382
Suicide
Cause of Death
Died of self-inflicted bullet wound, at Fort Yolland
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Gunner
Secondary Unit
INTAF
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Unit History
Notes

Son of Herbert and Annie Sophia Walker, of Nottingham, England. A civil engineer

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'R118394T' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39419 to 39420 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39419, Hendrix, Pharoah (P)). 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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