Jones , Michael Alan (M A)

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 94444, differing from this record's K/183. 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 'K/183' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39492 to 39493 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39492, Southey, Ruth Lorraine (R L)). 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.