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Identity
Person No.
11983
Service No.
C/166832
Last Name
First Name
William Patrick James
Initials
W P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died at Kimberley, on active service
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of William and Augusta Kelly, of Cape Town.

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: reverted Corps->Regiment for Cape Corps. John, citing SA History Online (sahistory.org.za/article/cape-coloured-corps-and-first-world-war), identified Cape Corps as a combat/recruiting identity with numbered battalions beneath it (like King's Royal Rifle Corps or the Machine Gun Corps), not an administrative branch grouping multiple distinct regiments -- unlike e.g. South African Infantry Corps, which genuinely groups different named regiments (Transvaal Scottish, Durban Light Infantry, etc).

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