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Son of Mrs. Lavinia Carapata; husband of Annie Johanna Jacoba Carapata, of 15, Flemming St., Cape Town, South Africa. Born 1874. Initially attested for the 2nd Infantry Regiment, The Duke of Edinburgh?s Own Rifles, on 8 October 1914, and embarked for the Northern Force (Walvis) per Galway Castle on 9 June 1915. Transferred to "A" Company of the 1st South African Infantry, Carapata was killed in action in an engagement with Turkish forces near Wath Makhl; his funeral was conducted a short while later by the Reverend P. J. Walshe, attached 2nd S.A.I., and his grave was marked with a wooden cross placed atop a sandhill. |
