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Identity
Person No.
29564
Old ROH no.
142
Service No.
85072270CK
Last Name
First Name
David
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
20
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, at Touwsriver Training Area, accident while training
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
SADF 3,817
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mr. & Mrs. W. Nel, of Grahamstown.

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).
Mike Sandham's research log ("List 1"), imported 16 Sep 2026, credited to The South Africa War Graves Project unless his entry says otherwise: filled Corps -- each of these was EMPTY on this record and no existing value was changed. Derived fields recomputed inline where applicable.

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