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Identity
Person No.
27276
Service No.
C/300484
Last Name
First Name
Otto
Initials
O
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Cause code
SUIC 381
Suicide
Cause of Death
Killed by train, suspect suicide
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of Phillip and Christina Verkyl. Born Burgersdorp. A houseboy.

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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