Identity
Person No.
49337
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
L D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds received near Pont Drift on 21 Oct 1899, while being transported back to Fort Tuli; buried Fort Tuli Cemetery. Seconded from The Cameronians; commanded D Troop, Rhodesia Regiment.
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Rhodesia Regiment 487
Formerly
Royal Rhodesia Regiment
(1970)
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Unit History
Part of
Notes
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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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