Identity
Person No.
31461
Old ROH no.
34819
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Richard Bateman
Initials
R B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
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Coordinates
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Active Citizen Force (Reserve)
Part of
Transvaal Scottish, formed 1902 after the Second Anglo-Boer War. Active Citizen Force infantry regiment through WWI, WWII (2nd/3rd Bns raised 1936/1939) and the Border War. Renamed Solomon Mahlangu Regiment 2019. Needs further research to break out exact era boundaries/role changes (e.g. 1953 and 1997 battalion amalgamations) as sources are found.
Notes
Estate file MHG Ref. 48663, dated 1922, in the National Archives, Pretoria: Richard Bateman MACHAN. Surviving spouse Tracey MACHAN
Research notes
Cleared stolen ServiceNo P9457 and Unit 84 Technical Stores Depot (belong to Sgt Malcolm Angus MacGregor PN 31460, 1959-08-21). Transvaal Scottish Rand Revolt 1922-03-10 left.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED as a duplicate. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word repeating what the Branch column already says. Secondary Unit is for sub-units -- a company, a squadron, a commando -- and this record's branch of service is unchanged at "Army".
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