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Identity
Person No.
49410
Service No.
40216
Last Name
First Name
David
Initials
Unknown
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 296
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Klip Drift (Battle of Tweebosch)
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Notes
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Research notes

Ashburner's Light Horse King's South Africa Medal Nominal Roll (angloboerwar.com's Ashburner's Light Horse unit page, 'Nominal roll' tab, 23-page handwritten ledger scan). This corps served in the Warrenton-Vryburg-Kuruman district and southwest Transvaal; per the unit overview it suffered approximately 12 killed and 14 wounded, having 'the ill-fortune to be part of the column of Major Paris, and under Lord Methuen, when that General was defeated by Delarey on 7th March 1902' -- the Battle of Tweebosch/Klip Drift, which accounts for the great majority of deaths found in this roll. This man's death is recorded in the roll as "Killed 7.3.02, Klip Drift" -- part of the Battle of Tweebosch cluster.

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