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Identity
Person No.
28780
Service No.
140992
Last Name
First Name
Kenneth John
Initials
K J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
32
Death Record
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of pulmonary tuberculosis, after discharge
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
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

Son of Andrew Fraser and Margaret Elizabeth Wood, of Johannesburg. Husband of Gertrude Cornelia Wood, of Forest Hill, Johannesburg. Born Red Hill, Natal.

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