Identity
Person No.
698
Service No.
C/275951
Last Name
First Name
Nicholas
Initials
N
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Cause of Death
Died of multiple petrol burns, accidentally received on 18th June 1942. Died on 20th June
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
XXXII. E. 18.
Unit History
Notes
Son of Jan and Sarah Arries. Husband of Mrs. Lena Arries, of Upper Adderley Street, Oudtshoorn. A labourer. ***CWGC has 21 June 1942 on headstone
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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