Identity
Person No.
607
Service No.
C/289013
Last Name
First Name
John Samuel
Initials
J S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
54
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of cardiac failure and dropsy, after discharge
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Unit History
Notes
Son of John and Maria Appolis; husband of Kathrine Appolis, of Johannesburg. Born Cape Province. A carpenter.
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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