Identity
Person No.
3950
Service No.
C/276665
Last Name
First Name
William Richard
Initials
W R
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
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Locality
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Notes
Son of Thomas F. and Susan Clarke, of Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa; husband of Dina Lavinia Clarke, of Bloemfontein. Born Bloemfontein.
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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