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Identity
Person No.
40208
Service No.
Unknown
First Name
Daniel
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, bullet to the head, during action across the Tigris. Having only joined his unit the day before
Military Service
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Unit History
Notes

Son of Robert Cottle-Green, of 20 Kinver Road, Sydenham, ex-chairman of the Pretoria Club, South Africa. Born Pretoria, South Africa. His brother Robert Cottle-Green also died in service. He is commemorated on his brother's headstone in France.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '103738' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40207 to 40209 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40207, Potgieter, Eben (E)). 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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