Identity
Person No.
8634
Service No.
C/321409V
Last Name
First Name
John
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, by enemy shelling. They were protecting the engineers who were busy repairing demolitions to the road in the vicinity of Montebello, Italy
Military Service
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Locality
Unknown
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Unit History
Notes
Son of Margaret Greef, of P.O. Eikenhof, Jacksons Drift, Johannesburg. Born Johannesburg. A painter. He was unmarried.
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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