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Identity
Person No.
650
Service No.
1746
Last Name
First Name
William Henry
Initials
W H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of pneumonia and influenza, at Cape Town
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Secondary Unit
"E" Coy. Reinforcements
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Notes

Husband of Frelina Arendse, of 19 Milne Street, Cape Town. Attested 8/8/16, released medically unfit 31/8/17. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918

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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***Death not attributable to war service

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