Born Zastron, Orange Free State. Resided Schoeman Street, Pretoria. He was married. Reportedly buried in Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery
Mike Sandham omissions mail 6 Sep 2026: queried Unit "TS Training Centre" against a possible SA Medical Corps attachment. Checked the SAWGP source page (id=41635) directly -- it shows only "Regiment: South African Police" (already reflected here via Unit2 = "South African Police"), with no mention of "TS Training Centre" or any Medical Corps attachment. This record's "TS Training Centre" Unit value isn't corroborated by that source; flagged for review, not removed (may be a genuine detail from the original 1990s compilation that SAWGP's grave-focused database simply doesn't carry).
16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo 'P/21543' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41634 to 41638 -- 5 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41634, Combrinck, Roelof David Johannes (R D 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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