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Identity
Person No.
4482
Service No.
C/167246
Last Name
First Name
Percival Andrew
Initials
P A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
42
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of general debility (paralysis), at Wynberg Military Hospital, discharged medically unfit in 1944
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of Joseph and Catherine Corbella; husband of Doris Corbella, of Queens Road, Woodstock, Cape Town. A painter in the building trade.

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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