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Had fourteen months service with Queensland Imperial Bushmen prior to Anglo-Boer war; served twenty months (1901-1902) with Queensland Imperial Bushmen during Anglo-Boer war; was six months at Army HQ, Pretoria, in 1902; final rank, Lieutenant, Queen's and King's Medal (three clasps); was on Anglo-Germany Boundary Commission in East Africa, 1904-5; served in Zululand Rebellion, 1906. joined 2nd M.R. (Natal Carbineers) in 1914, rank Lieutenant; and saw service in during Rebellion and in GSWA to July 1915; gazetted to 1st Cape Corps, 6/10/1915, rank Captain. Commemoration stone in Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth) Cemetery
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).
LG Sup 27 July 1918 pg 8968 - "For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in East Africa"
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