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Identity
Person No.
41683
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Petrus Jacobus
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed during Rand Revolt
Military Service
Rank
Civilian
Regiment
Defence Force
Unknown
Unit History
Notes

Son of Mrs. H. Boshoff, of Vrededorp. Husband of Petronella Jacoba Wilhelmina Coetzee, of Vrededorp

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '82901869SWK' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41680 to 41689 -- 10 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41680, Muronga, Jacob Daniel Horak (G)). 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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