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Identity
Person No.
7814
Service No.
618
Last Name
First Name
John James
Initials
J J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Kh Jibeit
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Grave Reference
Notes

Son of the late Daniel and Sarah Gain. Husband of Caroline Gain, of Good Hope Cottage, Upper Maitland, 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).

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