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Identity
Person No.
768
Service No.
117
Last Name
First Name
John
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of pneumonia, at Mtama
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lance Corporal
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Notes

Son of Sophie August, of 9 Hospital Road, Kimberley

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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