Of 26 Henlon Road, Valhalla, Pretoria.
4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "South African Army" cleared -- that's the service branch (Army, as distinct from Navy/Air Force), not a specific regiment; the actual unit ("Services School") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'P/21084' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41537 to 41561 -- 24 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41537, Joubert, Cornelius Johannes (C J)). 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.
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
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Mike Sandham
Mike Sandham 23 Aug 2026 omissions email: cross-referenced ROH vs SAWGP dates/units for this record, and separately flagged the shared Service No P/21084 with Joubert, Cornelius Johannes (PersonNumber 41537) — both already correctly recorded at two different Thaba Tshwane cemeteries.
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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South African War Graves Project
open source ↗
South African War Graves Project gives 1961-10-05 (vs ROH 1961-08-23) and unit "Union Defence Forces" (vs ROH "Services School attd. South African Medical Corps") for the same cause/age/SN — not overwritten, flagged for further verification. https://www.southafricawargraves.org/search/details.php?id=41554
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