Identity
Person No.
29766
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Sidney Tom
Initials
S T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
30
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died of broken neck, thrown from his horse while on patrol duty, in Bambatha / Zulu Rebellion of 1906
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unit
102 Battalion 6
Formerly
37 Battalion
(1980)
Secondary Unit
202 Battalion
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of the late George and Annie Clements. Born Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, England
Research notes
SN CORRECTION 25 Aug 2026 (year-prefix method): ServiceNo 81891913SCC cleared -- per the documented SA force-number convention (data/SA_SERVICE_NUMBER_NOTES.md), the prefix '81' implies registration circa 1981 (usually age 16), i.e. birth circa 1965. This record's own Age/DateDeath implies birth circa 1876, a mismatch; PersonNumber 29765 (Krohne, implied birth circa 1967) fits instead. Original value: "81891913SCC".
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