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Identity
Person No.
49527
Service No.
43
Last Name
First Name
Adrian
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Military Service
Rank
Trooper
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 402
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Died, at Upington
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Notes
Unknown
Research notes

Border Scouts enrollment/discharge ledger and QSA remarks roll (WO127-style scans on angloboerwar.com's Border Scouts unit page, 'Nominal rolls (3)' tab: Roll 2 / 8th Squadron ledgers plus Roll 1 QSA remarks). Raised at Upington, May 1900; later 8 squadrons, 786 all ranks; north-western Cape Colony (Kenhardt–Upington–Prieska). Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the same unit page: 1 officer and 19 NCOs and men killed, over 100 wounded; 'Curiously enough, no man of the regiment died of disease.' Ledger disease deaths are recorded anyway — Stirling's none-of-disease claim is noted, not used to omit them. angloboerwar.com Boer War Forum, 'Medals to the Border Scouts' (https://www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-awards/30317-medals-to-the-border-scouts Roll 2: 43 Plessis A Tpr, "deceased 18 Aug 01". QSA: 43 Plessis Adrian, died 18.8.01. Cause not stated.
Second reading of the QSA remarks roll (1 Sep 2026) after a page-scan of all 39 Roll 1 images. QSA: 43 Plessis Adrian, "15.8.01 Upt. Dead". Date corrected from roll 2's 18.8.01 to 15.8.01.

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