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Identity
Person No.
4868
Service No.
C/304926
Last Name
First Name
Jan J
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
40
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of carcinoma of stomach and broncho pneumonia
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of Piet and Maria Cyster; husband of Johanna Cyster, of Williston.

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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