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Identity
Person No.
48813
Service No.
516
Last Name
Brown 141
First Name
David
Initials
D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
22 December 1899 100
Cause code
DOW 2,734
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Wounded in action on the armoured train ambushed at Chieveley 1
Wounded in action on the armoured train ambushed at Chieveley, near Frere, on 15 Nov 1899; taken prisoner of war to Ladysmith; died of wounds
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
Durban Light Infantry 30
Later renamed 1st Infantry (Durban Light Infantry) (1912)
Corps
South African Infantry Corps 10,347
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Country
South Africa 23,872
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
INTOMBI CAMP - GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE, LADYSMITH, KZN
Grave Reference
Unknown
Memorial
DLI Anglo Boer War Memorial, D.L.I. Headquarters, Durban.
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Anglo Boer War Memorial (DLI Headquarters)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban, KZN
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
The Anglo Boer War, 1899-1902 Source: kznpr.co.za (KZN: A Photographic Historical Record)
Names on Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour
Memorial
Durban Light Infantry Chapel (Chapel of St Michael & St George)
Location
Durban Light Infantry Headquarters, Durban
Address
5 DLI Avenue, Durban, South Africa
Coordinates
-29.84722, 31.01583 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Memorial
Natal Volunteers Memorial, Boer Campaign 1899-1902, Pietermaritzburg City Hall.
Memorial
Natal Volunteers Memorial, Pietermaritzburg City Hall (Boer Campaign 1899-1902)
Location
Pietermaritzburg City Hall, KZN
Panel
Not listed against a numbered panel
On the panel
Position on the panel will be added with photographs
Unit History
Role at time of death
Infantry
Status
Colonial volunteer unit
Part of
Infantry Formation (SAAIF) — Motorised Infantry — Reserve
Raised 1854 as D'Urban Volunteer Guard; several earlier name changes (Durban Rifle Guard 1859, Royal Durban Rifles 1873, Natal Royal Rifles 1889) before "Durban Light Infantry" from 1895.
Notes

From Scotland; clerk before enlistment. Sixty DLI men formed part of the armoured train patrolling Estcourt–Colenso.

Research notes

Source: Regimental History of the Durban Light Infantry, Vol. 1, Roll of Honour, "The South African War, 1899-1902". NOTE: the same source also lists a "Corporal D. Brown" in its separate Chieveley/Armoured Train casualty table with date 15 Nov 1899, conflicting with this table's 22 Dec 1899 -- likely the same man, source-internal discrepancy not resolved here; this record uses the main chronological list's date.
Durban Light Infantry: Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour, compiled by K.M. Jordan, April 2020 (via angloboerwar.com's Durban Light Infantry 'Roll of honour' PDF, https://www.angloboerwar.com/images/pdf/DLI_ABW_ROH.pdf citing Historical Record of the Durban Volunteer Infantry Corps 1854-1904, The Durban Light Infantry Volume I: 1854-1934 (Lt-Col A.C. Martin), In Memoriam ROH of Imperial Forces ABW 1899-1902 (Steve Watt, 2000), Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa (Nicki von der Heyde), Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, and kznpr.co.za.: Corporal D. Brown (Presbyterian), Service No. 516, wounded and captured in the Chieveley armoured train ambush of 15 Nov 1899, died of wounds as a POW at Ladysmith. Three possible dates given (22/23/27 Dec 1899); ROH's existing 1899-12-22 matches the first. Also commemorated at All Saints Church, Ladysmith. Resolves the 31 Aug 2026 finding that no findmypast DLI record matched this man.
K.M. Jordan, Durban Light Infantry: Anglo Boer War Roll of Honour (updated Nov 2023; email to John/Bobby 3 Sep 2026). Local file data/jordan_dli_abw_roh_2023-11-21.pdf (Downloads: "0. DLI ABW ROH - 21 Nov 2023.pdf").: Cpl David Brown, SN 516; WIA Chieveley armoured train 15/11/1899; POW to Ladysmith; DoW. Dates given 22/23/27 Dec 1899 — ROH kept 1899-12-22.

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