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Identity
Person No.
12929
Service No.
10920
Last Name
First Name
Donald
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Formed 28 November 1855 as the Cape Rifle Corps, the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony -- predates the Union Defence Force's 1913 Active Citizen Force / Regular Force system entirely. Transferred into the Active Citizen Force in 1913; later Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, then Cape Town Rifles (1961); renamed Chief Langalibalele Rifles 2019.
Notes

Son of Frederick Albertus Lange and Dora Ethelind Lange, of Cape Town, South Africa.

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