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Identity
Person No.
20082
Service No.
C/274241
Last Name
First Name
Zacharias
Initials
Z
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of pulmonary tuberculosis, after discharge
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of David and Susan Petersen, of 26 Smith Street, Diep River, Cape Town.

Research notes

Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Cape Town, Plumstead Cemetery, Victoria.
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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