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Identity
Person No.
21059
Service No.
P/88
Last Name
First Name
John Greig
Initials
J G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
NAT 756
Natural causes
Cause of Death
Died of heart failure, at Pretoria
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Second son of the late J. Ramsay. Brother of Miss Jessie Ramsay, of Gezina, Pretoria. Brother of Mr. G. G. Ramsay, Mountain Dew Farm, Barberton. Born in Edinburgh in 1873, and attended George Watson's College in 1879-89. He was trained as a Chartered Accountant, but his health breaking down, he emigrated to South Africa in 1896. He served during the Boer War, and on the outbreak of the late war joined the S.A.I., with which he campaigned in German South West Africa. At the time of his death he was employed in the audit department of the Command Paymaster's office at Pretoria. On Barberton War Memorial

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