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Identity
Person No.
41603
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Diederik Johannes
Initials
D J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
51
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 763
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of coronary thrombosis, in Voortrekkerhoogte Military Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Major
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Administrative Services Corps
Defence Force
SADF 3,848
South African Defence Force
Unit History
Notes

Born Heidelberg, Transvaal. Resided at Retief Avenue, Lyttelton. He was married.

Research notes

26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "South African Medical Corps" → 4 Vehicle Reserve Park (SAWGP Unit).
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 ("4 Vehicle Reserve Park") is already captured in Unit. Per John's decision, the 52 records with no better Unit info were left as-is.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'P/50296' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41602 to 41603 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41602, Riley, Vivian Lewellyn (V L)). 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

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

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