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Identity
Person No.
40797
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Arthur De Muschamp Westhorp
Initials
A D M W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
48
Death Record
Cause code
DROW 1,204
Drowned
Cause of Death
Drowned at sea (from S.S. "Galway Castle"), as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine 160 miles S.W. and .5 S. of the Fastnet
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Secondary Unit
Att 102 Battalion
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of John Jacob and Florence Sophia Vickers.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '610' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40795 to 40797 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40795, Mankani, John (D A)). 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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***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

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