Identity
Person No.
6828
Service No.
C/167924
Last Name
First Name
William
Initials
W
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
24
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of hemorrhagic encephalitis, while serving with the 129 Res MT Coy. He was admitted to hospital in Nairobi on the 9 January 1942
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Notes
Husband of Mrs. Francis Evening, of 3 Rectory Street, Beaconsfield, Kimberley.
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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