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Identity
Person No.
9023
Service No.
14306
Last Name
First Name
James Brownlee
Initials
J B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
33
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,078
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of anaemic and bacillary dysentery
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Formed 28 November 1855 as the Cape Rifle Corps, the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony -- predates the Union Defence Force's 1913 Active Citizen Force / Regular Force system entirely. Transferred into the Active Citizen Force in 1913; later Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, then Cape Town Rifles (1961); renamed Chief Langalibalele Rifles 2019.
Notes

Son of John and Alexandrina W. Hall. Born Claremont, Cape Province. A clerk.

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