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Identity
Person No.
33877
Service No.
80590532
Last Name
First Name
Johannes Petrus
Initials
J P
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of lymphoma, in Groote Schuur Hospital
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Defence Force
SADF 3,852
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mr. J. Williams, of Ashton, Cape Province

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.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".

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