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Identity
Person No.
7399
Service No.
1389
Last Name
Fortuin 16
First Name
Jacob Jacobus
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1897 (±1 yr) 577
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
09 October 1918 175
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of influenza 916
Died of influenza
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Cape Corps 1,518
Unit
1st 961
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,866
Locality
Northern Cape 808
Cemetery
KIMBERLEY (WEST END) CEMETERY 425
Grave Reference
Independent Bl. E. Row C. 21. 3
Coordinates
-28.73608, 24.73764 OSM
Unit History
Part of
South African Defence Force (1957–1994)
Notes

Son of Johannes and Dinah Fortuin, of Prins St., Noorder Paarl, Cape Province.

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).

Citations
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External References
Stories 1
by Lorne Bellamy on 13 February 2007 · via source
Born in 1879 as William, brother of John Frederick b. 1878, he used the identification of a cousin in order to sign up and fight. Reported to have died of enteric fever.
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