Second Anglo-Boer War (Rhodesian border, relief of Mafeking, Cannon Kopje)
Boer War (1899-1902) service: bulk of the regiment on the Rhodesian border and in the relief of Mafeking (strength 1,106 all ranks at war's outbreak; detachment of 10 officers/81 men in Mafeking when the siege began). Defence of Cannon Kopje, 31 Oct 1899 (under Colonel Walford): 2 officers, 2 NCOs, 4 men killed, ~6 wounded -- officers killed named in Baden-Powell's despatch of 18 May 1900: Captain the Hon. Douglas Henry Marsham, Captain C A Kerr Pechell. Also served at Tuli/Lobatsi under Colonel Plumer (Capt Mowbray wounded, Lobatsi 14 Mar 1900) and on the Kuruman road under Colonel Nicholson/Walford. Further casualties Trenafontein 21 Jan 1902 (2 killed, 5 wounded, unnamed) and in the Delarey/Methuen action near Klerksdorp 7 Mar 1902 (unnamed). Source: Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the angloboerwar.com unit page. Source
Personnel
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