Identity
Person No.
33897
Service No.
K/727
Last Name
First Name
Norman Charles
Initials
N C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
SHOT 546
Shot
Cause of Death
Died in Shooting Incident, while attending a compulsory camp at Eersterivier. He was shot in the neck with a rifle blank which ruptured his artery. He died before he could be taken to hospital
Military Service
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Country
Locality
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
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 Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wolff, of Cape Town.
Research notes
26 Aug 2026: Unit leftover "1 South African Infantry Battalion" → Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles (SAWGP Regiment, no Unit).
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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