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Identity
Person No.
3080
Service No.
5068
Last Name
First Name
George Clark
Initials
G C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,732
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds, received 13th May
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Locality
Unknown
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 Daniel L. and Maud E. Burns, c/o The Roads Dept, Port Shepstone, Natal, South Africa. Born in Pietermaritzburg. A bricklayer by trade.

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