Identity
Person No.
22090
Service No.
E/88
Last Name
First Name
George Edward
Initials
G E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
53
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of alcoholism and pneumonia, at Johannesburg Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
2nd Corporal
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
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Coordinates
Notes
Husband of Lucy Martha Rust, of 85 Frere Street, West Bank, East London. Born Komgha, Cape Province. Previous service in Queenstown Rifles, W. P. Mounted Rifles and South African Irish. One records states that he died of alcoholism and pneumonia, at Johannesburg Hospital, and another says he died of strychnine poisoning. Records indicate that he lost his left limb in service 29 March 1918, and that he was demobbed 28-May-1919, but entered hospital on 8 June 1919 due to the effects of malaria that he contracted on military service
Citations
***Accepted by CWGC for War Grave Status & burial site under investigation
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