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Identity
Person No.
39607
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Zefaniya
Initials
Z
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MURD 456
Murdered
Cause of Death
Murdered, by terrorists, in the Plumtree area, Op Tangent
Military Service
Rank
District Assistant
Secondary Unit
Support Commando
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
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).
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'PR96699' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39606 to 39607 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39606, Lotringer, Emil Christopher (E C)). 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.

Citations

***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

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