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Identity
Person No.
41154
Service No.
85360294SWK
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
N
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,633
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in vehicle accident. While transporting members of his unit to work, between Nepara and Rundu, a Kwevoel 50 in a logistics convoy struck the civilian bakkie driven by Ndara, head on
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,832
South African Defence Force
Location
Unit History
Awards
Pro Patria Medal
South Africa
Pro Patria Medal warrant, Government Gazette No. 5171 (25 Jun 1976), Rule 5, as amended by GG No. 5575 (3 Jun 1977); discontinued by GG No. 25213 (25 Jul 2003, Schedule corrected by GG No. 26778, 17 Sep 2004) for service on/after 27 Apr 2003. Gazette extracts: https://rohsa.co.za/award.php?id=24
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Research notes

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 'Johan Christiaan', Age 19 and Unit 'School of Infantry' were forward-filled from PersonNumber 41153 down a contiguous run of 2 records -- this record's own LastName ('Ndara'), Initials ('N'), ServiceNo ('85360294SWK') and DateDeath ('1987-04-21') 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.
CORRECTION, 28 Sep 2026: the earlier note on this record wrongly described Unit as forward-filled/contaminated alongside FirstName and Age. On review, Unit values proved to be common, genuinely correct data shared by many unrelated real people throughout this dataset (e.g. 'Western Cape' alone appears on 195 scattered, unrelated records with 111 distinct surnames) -- Unit was NOT part of this contamination and has been RESTORED from the pre-sweep backup. FirstName and Age remain correctly cleared -- both were 100% correlated across every contaminated run and independently confirmed absent on SAWGP's own record for spot-checked samples.

Citations

***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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