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Identity
Person No.
426
Service No.
C/303933
Last Name
First Name
David Albertus
Initials
D A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
46
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of squamous epithelioma of larynx
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of David A. America and Maria America; husband of Dinah America, of Cape Town.

Research notes

Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Cape Town, Grassy Park Cemetery, Klip Road.
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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