Identity
Person No.
49350
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
Initials
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Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
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Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,811
Killed in action
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Trooper
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Unit History
Role at time of death
Second Anglo-Boer War (Rhodesian border, relief of Mafeking, Cannon Kopje)
Part of
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.
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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 38, "The dead and wounded, Ramathlabama fight, 31st March 1900" -- cross-checked by the author against contemporary newspapers, a letter from officer A. Weston Jarvis, and NAZ archival sources. Not previously on the ROH.
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