Green , Ralph Raymond (R R)

16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '01575786PE' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 41690 to 41694 -- 5 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (41690, Human, Johannes Petrus (J P)). 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.
Col (rt) Graham du Toit Last Post 26 Sep 2026: "Warrant Officer Class I Ralph Raymond Green from the Union Defence Force Headquarters died from encephalitis in 1 Military Hospital. He was 49." Confirms the cause, place and age. 1 Military Hospital is the Voortrekkerhoogte military hospital named here.
- RANK CONFLICT, NOT CHANGED: this record gives Sergeant Major, Graham gives Warrant Officer Class I. The two are related but not interchangeable -- Sergeant Major is an appointment, Warrant Officer Class I a rank -- and nothing here settles which the source meant.