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Identity
Person No.
38706
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Charles Arthur Cecil
Initials
C A C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
51
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Ypres
Military Service
Rank
Colonel
Secondary Unit
"R" Troop
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Awards
United Kingdom
Notes

Son of James and R. Maria King; husband of Adela Margaret King, of 33, Evelyn Gardens, South Kensington, London. Served in the Sudan, Burmese, and the South African Campaigns (Brevet Maj., Twice Mentioned in Despatches. Born Cape, South Africa.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '21587' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 38705 to 38706 -- 2 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (38705, Ndlovu, Abednicho (A)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

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***Not yet accepted for War Grave Status by CWGC, need service file

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