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Identity
Person No.
41616
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Petrus Johannes
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Cause code
DROW 1,200
Drowned
Cause of Death
Drowned
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Soldier
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,823
South African Defence Force
Unit History
Notes

He was unmarried

Research notes


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 ("61 Base Workshop") 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 '43141' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41615 to 41619 -- 5 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41615, Maritz, Johannes Christoffel (J 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.

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

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