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Identity
Person No.
39943
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Allen Even
Initials
A E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of pneumonia, at Roberts Heights
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Secondary Unit
"D" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

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Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Cape Corps" (a branch/Corps, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, matching the same organisation already correctly classified there elsewhere on the ROH.
4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '644717' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 39940 to 39944 -- 5 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (39940, Munemo, Poncian (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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