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Identity
Person No.
8886
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Ivor Arthur Melville
Initials
I A M
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,811
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Mkungu (Lindi Area), while checking the advance of a vastly superior enemy force. His gun crew had become casualties and he was handling the gun himself when he was killed
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Lieutenant
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Notes

Son of H. N. and L. C. Guest; husband of Bertha Anne Guest, of Waterbury Rd., Plumstead, Cape Province, South Africa. Born at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, South Africa. His nephews both died in service in WW2

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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