Identity
Person No.
7338
Service No.
C/167200
Last Name
First Name
Ernest
Initials
E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
52
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DISCH 606
Died after discharge
Cause of Death
Died of tuberculosis of the lungs, after discharge. He had returned from East Africa and was discharged as Medically Unfit on 24 Jul 1941
Military Service
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Unit History
Notes
Son of Ernest and Maria Ford and Husband of Christiana Ford, of 47 May Rd, Fordsburg, Johannesburg.
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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