Identity
Person No.
15066
Service No.
242073
Last Name
First Name
Henry John
Initials
H J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,367
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died of pneumonia, at Altamura Military Hospital, whilst a POW
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Unknown
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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 Daniel Pieter and Agnes Margaret Marais, of Mossel Bay, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Riversdale, Cape Province. A bank clerk. On Mossel Bay War Memorial, Western Cape
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