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Identity
Person No.
22075
Service No.
147
Last Name
First Name
John Cecil Matthew
Initials
J C M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Kh Jibeit
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Acting Lance Corporal
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of Sarah Maria and the late John Russell, of 10 Neil Street, Beaconsfield, Cape Province

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Cape Corps" (a branch/Corps, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, matching the same organisation already correctly classified there elsewhere on the ROH.
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).

Citations

***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation

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