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Identity
Person No.
40526
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
William
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of Medical Reason, pancreatitis
Military Service
Rank
Soldier
Regiment
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British 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


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Army Service Corps" (a branch, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, per John's decision on the broader Regiment/Corps field-swap review.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '649052' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40525 to 40526 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40525, Vazhure, Joramu (J)). 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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***Submitted for War Grave Status to CWGC, awaiting acceptance

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