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Identity
Person No.
3365
Service No.
C/277018
Last Name
First Name
George Johannes
Initials
G J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of Fredrick and Georgina Carelsen; husband of Sarah M. V. Carelsen, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa.

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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