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Identity
Person No.
41656
Service No.
P/45394
Last Name
First Name
Johannes
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Cause code
NAT 755
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of heart failure caused by bacterial endocarditis, at Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
South African Infantry Corps
Defence Force
SADF 3,821
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 ("1 Air Depot") 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, Rank, RankID -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: ServiceNo CORRECTED P/6679 -> P/45394. The stored number was contamination, not a reading of this man's record: PersonNumbers 41653 to 41665 -- 13 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number P/6679, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41653, Boyle, Patrick Hartigan (P H)). A value repeated down a consecutive block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number. Mike's log supplies a different and plausible number for this man specifically, so the stored value is known-wrong regardless of whether the replacement proves exact. The displaced value is recorded here.

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

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