Naude , Danie (D)

Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 22 Sep 2026: "Trooper Jan Daniel Naude from 2 Special Service Battalion died after suffering massive blood loss after being involved in a road accident while in Pretoria. He was 20." FORENAME: Graham gives "Jan Daniel" where this record has "Danie", which is the familiar form of Daniel; noted rather than treated as a conflict. Cause of death is more specific than the stored account -- massive blood loss following a road accident in Pretoria.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '80635' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40535 to 40536 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40535, Viljoen, Charl (C)). 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.
Mike Sandham OMISSIONS: 22 SEPTEMBER (mailed 22 Sep 2026, credited The South Africa War Graves Project unless otherwise specified): CORRECTION applied: "22 Sep 1983: Trooper Jan Daniel (Danie) Naude Died of injuries, after suffering massive blood loss after being involved in a road accident while in Pretoria." The stored cause read only "Died on active service". Graham du Toit gave the same account the day before; two sources agree, so it is applied rather than flagged.
- CONTAMINATION CONFIRMED AND CLEARED: Mike asks "Person # 40536 contaminated by 40535 -- Service No?" He is right. This record carried ServiceNo 80635, which belongs to PersonNumber 40535, Second Lieutenant Charl Viljoen of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, drowned in the Zambezi in 1968 -- a different man, a different force and fifteen years earlier. The number has been CLEARED rather than guessed at.
- HIS CALL EXPOSED A GAP IN MY OWN SWEEP. The ServiceNo contamination sweep of 16 Sep 2026 only examined numbers of six characters or more, so every SHORT number was silently skipped. Re-run at that lower bound, the same forward-fill turns up on 171 further runs and 269 more records -- including 40538 Viya, immediately below this one, carrying 5052 from 40537 Visser. All cleared on 22 Sep 2026.