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Identity
Person No.
41796
Service No.
91063867CK
Last Name
First Name
Frans
Initials
F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
MVA 2,635
Motor vehicle accident
Cause of Death
Died in Pedestrian Accident, run over by a car while returning to the unit after a one day pass
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Rifleman
Corps
South African Cape Corps
Secondary Unit
H.Q.
Defence Force
SADF 3,839
South African Defence Force
Notes

Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Geldenhuys, c/o Mr. P. de Wet, Vyeboomplaas, Elgin.

Research notes

Col (rt) Graham du Toit, Last Post, 31 Aug 2026: Rfn F. Geldenhuys, 1 South African Cape Corps Training Centre, run over by a civilian vehicle while returning to the unit after an official one-day leave pass, age 23. Matches ROH record.
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.

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