Identity
Person No.
28497
Service No.
107632
Last Name
First Name
Mervyn
Initials
M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Formed 28 November 1855 as the Cape Rifle Corps, the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony -- predates the Union Defence Force's 1913 Active Citizen Force / Regular Force system entirely. Transferred into the Active Citizen Force in 1913; later Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, then Cape Town Rifles (1961); renamed Chief Langalibalele Rifles 2019.
Notes
Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown
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