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Identity
Person No.
39838
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Alexander Norwell
Initials
A N
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Achiet-le-Grand
Military Service
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Secondary Unit
7A Bty.
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Son of Alexander and Mary Clarke, of Graham St., Montrose, Forfarshire. Born Cape Town, South Africa. Educated Troyeville School, Johannesburg and Montrose Academy. A chemist.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '9565' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39837 to 39839 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39837, Mjikijelwa, Frank (F)). 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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