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Identity
Person No.
41458
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Hilton Douglas Scott
Initials
H D S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOAS 7,467
Died on active service
Cause of Death
Died on active service
Military Service
Rank
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"B" Squadron
Defence Force
RSF 2,789
Rhodesian Security Forces
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


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '643082' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41457 to 41458 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41457, Ndhlovu, Edward Francis (E)). 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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