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Identity
Person No.
15288
Service No.
C/167784
Last Name
First Name
Peter
Initials
P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
43
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of malaria and relapse and dysentery, in hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of William and Lennie Martin; of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa; husband of Sophie Martin. Born Cape Town. He was serving with the 121 Res MT Coy at the time of his death.

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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