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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