Identity
Person No.
23561
Service No.
26664
Last Name
First Name
James Raymond
Initials
J R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,079
Died of disease
Military Service
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Car
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Formed 21 September 1899 as the Imperial Light Horse (Second Boer War). Volunteer unit in the Transvaal Volunteers 1902-1913, then transferred to the Active Citizen Force as "5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse)" in 1913. Reformed as an armoured regiment 1949; split into 1 LHR/2 LHR 1975 (Border War era), reamalgamated 1997. Renamed Johannesburg Light Horse Regiment 2019.
Notes
Son of Mrs. C. M. Smith, of Johannesburg. Husband of Olive Smith, of 107, Noel Court, Siemert Road, Doornfontein, Johannesburg. Born in the Transvaal. A machinist.
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