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Identity
Person No.
6011
Service No.
C/275156
Last Name
First Name
Matthews Lucas
Initials
M L
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of pulmonary tuberculosis, after medical discharge
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Notes

Son of Johannes and Elizabeth Dreyer; husband of Catrina M. Dreyer, of Weltevreden, Caledon, Cape Province. He had 5 children. A painter. Service in East Africa and the Middle East.

Research notes

Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Stanford (St Thomas) Anglican Church Cemetery.
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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