Identity
Person No.
20418
Service No.
C/285130
Last Name
First Name
Martin Marthinus
Initials
M M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
35
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Military Service
Location
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Locality
Unknown
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Notes
Son of Abie and Paulina Plaatjies; husband of Margreita Plaatjies, of Zuider Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Robertson, Cape Province. A labourer.
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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