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49333
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Cause of Death
Killed in action, ambushed on the road near Pont Drift, Limpopo River
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Research notes
Plumer's Men: The Rhodesia Regiment and the Northwest Frontier during the Second South African War, 1899-1900, Robert Burrett (extensively footnoted against contemporary newspapers, the Rhodesia Regiment Roll, Rhodesian death registers, and NAZ archival sources).: killed/died of wounds in the Boer ambush and skirmish near Pont Drift and Rhodes' Drift on the Limpopo, 21-23 Oct 1899 -- the Rhodesia Regiment's first Boer War fatalities. Not previously on the ROH; the database had no Boer War-era Rhodesia Regiment casualties recorded at all before this pass.
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