Identity
Person No.
19703
Service No.
18643
Last Name
First Name
Joseph Samuel Shirley
Initials
J S S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of malignant hypertension renal calculi and rl nephrectomy
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Grave Reference
Unknown
Coordinates
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 Shirley and Alice Maud M. Parsons; husband of Beryl Florence Parsons, of Cape Town.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Cape Town, Mowbray St. Peter’s Garden of Remembrance.
Citations
Unknown
External References
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MIBISA Volume One – Western Cape
open source ↗
Cape Town, Mowbray St. Peter’s Garden of Remembrance
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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