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Identity
Person No.
40055
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Phahlani
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Cause code
MURD 456
Murdered
Cause of Death
Murdered by insurgents while on R&R at Luhonjana Line, Tjolotjo, Op Tangent
Military Service
Rank
District Security Assistant
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
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 '647573' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40054 to 40055 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40054, Ndhlovu, Morgan (M)). 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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***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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