Identity
Person No.
269
Service No.
C/273487
Last Name
First Name
Gert
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Accidentally killed, explosion of unexploded shell. Another Gunner was wounded. The Court of Enquiry deemed this as accidental, due to his own negligence and failure to obey orders given
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XI. J. 17.
Unit History
Notes
Son of Jaftha and Hester Alaardt, of George, Cape Province, South Africa.
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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