Buttery, John

Identity

Person No.

3164

Service No.

2993

Last Name

Buttery 2

First Name

John

Initials

J

Date of Birth

Unknown

Est. Birth Year

1867 (±1 yr) 117

Age at Death

50

Death Record

Date of Death

12 March 1917 101

Cause code

DIS 6,077

Died of disease

Cause of Death

Died of dysentery 401

Died of dysentery, at Mikesse

Military Service

Branch

Army

Rank

Private

Regiment

Cape Corps 1,518

Unit

1st 961

Defence Force

UDF 24,809

Union Defence Force

Location

Country

Tanzania 2,307

Locality

Unknown

Cemetery

MOROGORO CEMETERY 236

Grave Reference

VI. B. 9. 1

Coordinates

-6.84595, 37.66665 OSM

Unit History

Part of

South African Defence Force (1957–1994)

Notes

Son of James Buttery; husband of Rose Buttery, of 60, 1st St., Middelburg, Cape Province.

Research notes

4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Cape Corps" (a branch/Corps, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, matching the same organisation already correctly classified there elsewhere on the ROH.
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).

Citations

Unknown

External References

South African War Graves Project open source ↗

Stories 1

by Joan Augustyn on 25 August 2010 · via source

Norman Franzsen was a Private in the South African Mounted rifles Regiment. Unit Text: Depot Staff Date of Death: 16/12/1914 Service No: 3164. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave Ref: D.R. 1788 Cemetery: Pretoria (Rebecca Street) Cemetery He was killed in action at Nooitgedacht N.E. De Wildt. I would like to know what happened at Nooitgedacht in 1914 and how he was killed.

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Buttery , John (J)