Identity
Person No.
4254
Service No.
233012V
Last Name
First Name
Edwin Bernard
Initials
E B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
22
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
ACC 1,585
Accident
Military Service
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
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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 Edwin A. H. and Bernhilde Emily Collett, of Newton Square, Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa.
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