Identity
Person No.
20411
Service No.
C/287061
Last Name
First Name
Hermanus
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SUIC 383
Suicide
Cause of Death
Committed suicide, fracture of the sternum and rupture of the lungs caused by fall from a tree
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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Unit History
Notes
Son of Johannes and Sophia Plaatjies, of Concordia.
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Knysna Cemetery.
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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