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Identity
Person No.
147
Service No.
C/166160
Last Name
First Name
John
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of meningitis
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of Moses and Zinah Adams, of Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Sophia Adams, of Cradock.

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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