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Identity
Person No.
4536
Service No.
3
Last Name
First Name
Richard John
Initials
R J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of malaria, at Moshi
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of Maria Cotton, of Vine Road, Vryburg, Cape Province

Research notes


4 Sep 2026: Regiment leftover "Cape Corps" (a branch/Corps, not a specific regiment) moved to Corps, matching the same organisation already correctly classified there elsewhere on the ROH.
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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