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Identity
Person No.
49345
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
Jones 107
First Name
Unknown
Initials
W F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Date of Death
14 February 1900 106
Cause code
DOW 2,733
Died of wounds
Cause of Death
Died of wounds 2,436
Died of wounds received at Fort Eloff (12 Feb) while being brought back to camp; buried Gaborone
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Corporal
Regiment
British South Africa Police 653
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Unit History
Role at time of death
Second Anglo-Boer War (Rhodesian border, relief of Mafeking, Cannon Kopje)
Part of
Rhodesian Security Forces
Boer War (1899-1902) service: bulk of the regiment on the Rhodesian border and in the relief of Mafeking (strength 1,106 all ranks at war's outbreak; detachment of 10 officers/81 men in Mafeking when the siege began). Defence of Cannon Kopje, 31 Oct 1899 (under Colonel Walford): 2 officers, 2 NCOs, 4 men killed, ~6 wounded -- officers killed named in Baden-Powell's despatch of 18 May 1900: Captain the Hon. Douglas Henry Marsham, Captain C A Kerr Pechell. Also served at Tuli/Lobatsi under Colonel Plumer (Capt Mowbray wounded, Lobatsi 14 Mar 1900) and on the Kuruman road under Colonel Nicholson/Walford. Further casualties Trenafontein 21 Jan 1902 (2 killed, 5 wounded, unnamed) and in the Delarey/Methuen action near Klerksdorp 7 Mar 1902 (unnamed). Source: Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the angloboerwar.com unit page.
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).: BOX 30, "Casualties of action on 12th February 1900" (Fort Eloff/Sepitsi Hill, near Basuto Kop) -- cross-checked by the author against contemporary newspapers, the Rhodesia Regiment Roll, Rhodesian death registers, and letters from the Roman Catholic Chaplain and one of Plumer's officers. Not previously on the ROH; the database had no Boer War-era Rhodesia Regiment or BSAP casualties recorded at all before this pass.

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