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Identity
Person No.
49337
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
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Initials
L D
Date of Birth
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Age at Death
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Military Service
Rank
Captain
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Defence Force
COLONIAL 296
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
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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.
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Unit History
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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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