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Identity
Person No.
49462
Service No.
119
Last Name
First Name
Unknown
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Date of Birth
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Est. Birth Year
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Age at Death
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Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Unit
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Defence Force
COLONIAL 402
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Scheepers Nek (about six miles south of Vryheid)
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
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Research notes

Bethune's Mounted Infantry enrollment/discharge ledger (WO127-style nominal roll scan on angloboerwar.com's Bethune's Mounted Infantry unit page, 'Nominal roll images' tab, 72 photographed pages of the original bound ledger; files 07/08 and 23/24 are duplicate photographs of the same book pages). Raised at Durban, October 1899, by Major E.C. Bethune, 16th Lancers. Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the same unit page. angloboerwar.com Boer War Forum, 'Medals to Bethune's Mounted Infantry' (https://www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-awards/29337-medals-to-bethunes-mounted-infantry Recorded as 119 Coleman Tpr, "killed 20.5.00". First name not clearly readable on the scan. Stirling (quoting Buller's telegram of 21 May 1900): on 20 May 1900 one squadron was ambushed about six miles south of Vryheid (Scheepers Nek, later called Goff's Disaster); Captain Goff, Lieutenants Lanham and M'Lachlan, and about 26 NCOs and men were killed. The forum's City Coins note gives British losses as 28 killed including Capt Goff and 2 subalterns.

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