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Identity
Person No.
41456
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Edward Francis
Initials
E F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
49
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 756
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of heart attack, at the Forward Air Field, Kariba, on active service
Military Service
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Regiment
Secondary Unit
"B" Squadron
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
Unit History
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


5 Sep 2026: Regiment/Unit swapped -- "Reserve" (the specific squadron) moved to Regiment; "Rhodesian Air Force" (the force-wide designation) moved to Unit, per John's decision.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '212' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41455 to 41456 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41455, Forrester, Alton Clyde (A 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.

Citations

***Submitted for War Grave Status to CWGC, awaiting acceptance

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