Hadler , Edgar Schmidt (E S)

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 64 Hadler Edgar Schmidt SSM, "killed 20.5.00". CONFLICT: Stirling lists Sergeant-Major Hadler among the wounded of this same action (with Captain Lord de la Warr and Lieutenant De Lasalle, both of whom appear later in this roll as survivors), not among the killed. The unit ledger is the more primary individual-fate source and is followed here; Stirling's wounded grouping is noted, not used to omit him. 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.