Kaverere (I)

16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '8265431SCE' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40810 to 40814 -- 5 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40810, Barnard, Nicolaas Willem (N W)). 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.
Database-wide FirstName/Age/Unit contamination sweep, 28 Sep 2026 (John's hypothesis, tested and confirmed on 3 sample groups before running at scale): FirstName 'Isaac', Age 20 and Unit 'Keep Protection' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 40811 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Kaverere'), Initials ('I'), ServiceNo ('') and DateDeath ('1978-09-01') are all genuinely distinct from every other record in the run, confirming a different real person whose FirstName/Age/Unit were simply never captured (source pattern consistent with a SAPS memorial table using rowspan for Name/Age/Province, mis-copied by the scraper onto every row). FirstName, Age and Unit CLEARED; no replacement guessed. CauseDeath NOT touched -- it follows its own, narrower sub-block boundaries within this run and carries real distinguishing information.