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Identity
Person No.
41643
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Willem Marthinus
Initials
W M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
50
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,080
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of broncho pneumonia and chronic nephritis, at Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Navy
Rank
Sergeant Major
Regiment
Unknown
Defence Force
SADF 3,856
South African Defence Force
Location
Unit History
Notes

Born Transvaal. Resided at Signal Hill, Cape Town. He was married. Reportedly buried in Cape Town.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '05210935E' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41639 to 41651 -- 11 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41639, Blignaut, Daniel (D)). 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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