Identity
Person No.
23819
Service No.
C/300464
Last Name
First Name
James
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
37
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Motor Vehicle Accident, fractured skull when truck overturned
Military Service
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Unit History
Notes
Son of Percy and Jessie Spalding; husband of Alice Spalding, of Roodepoort, Transvaal. Born Cape Province. A general 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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