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Name: SCHOLTZ, Edmund John OBE (Capt.)
Birth Date: 26 Aug 1880 S. Africa
Death Date: 24 May 1952 on railway train on Cape Town-Simonstown line
First Date: 1918
Married: 1. In Sea Point, Cape Town 5 Aug 1909 Kathleen Maud Calderwood b. 1884, d. 20 July 1930 Pretoria; 2. In Kensington, London 28 Aug 1931 Margarita Mary McCall b. 1904
Children: 1. Eduard Louw (21 Mar 1911 Green Point, Cape-6 Aug 1968 Springs, Transvaal); Beatrice Maud (Scholtz sic) (23 Dec 1915 Pretoria-21 Feb 2007 Pretoria); Denys Calderwood (16 Nov 1921 Pretoria-1969 Orange Free State) 2. Mary McCall (Gooch) (16 Dec 1932)
Book Reference: LG
General Information:
London Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - OBE for distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa - Captain Edmund John Scholtz, EA Force
At time of marriage clerk in Ministry of Labour, London
At the time of death he was retired civil servant, Secretary, Imperial War Graves Commission