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Identity
Person No.
49530
Service No.
115
Last Name
First Name
G
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Death Record
Cause code
DIS 6,081
Died of disease
Cause of Death
Died of enteric fever, at Upington
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 405
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Notes
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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: 48 Steenkamp G Cpl, "Died Disease 9.10.01". QSA: 48 Steenkamp G Cpl, "Died Disease Upington 9.10.01". Stirling's no-disease-deaths claim noted, not used to omit him.
Second reading of the QSA remarks roll (1 Sep 2026) after a page-scan of all 39 Roll 1 images. QSA: 115 Steenkamp G Capt, "Died enteric Upington 9.11.00". Roll 2 had 48 Cpl "Died Disease 9.10.01" — treated as the same man; QSA rank, number, and date stored, roll 2 reading noted.

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