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Identity
Person No.
49632
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
P F
Initials
P F
Date of Birth
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Est. Birth Year
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Age at Death
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Military Service
Rank
Captain
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 Duival's Kloof (Duivelskloof)
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
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Research notes

Bush Veldt Carbineers enrollment/discharge ledger (WO127-style scans on angloboerwar.com's Bush Veldt Carbineers and Pietersburg Light Horse unit page, 'Nominal roll images' tab, Roll 1). Raised Pretoria February 1901; north of Pietersburg / Spelonken. Renamed Pietersburg Light Horse 1 December 1901. Stirling, J. (1907), The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902, as reproduced on the same unit page: Capt P. F. Hunt and Sgt F. Elands killed 6 Aug 1901, and 1 man on the 10th; SSM Evans killed Spelonken 23 Mar 1902. Witton, G. R., Scapegoats of the Empire (1907), online at angloboerwar.com. Deaths only. Disch/Dis./MU/TE/Stock/transfer skipped. Durban recruitment sheets (bvc2) are attestations without fate — not used to add casualties. Forum 'Medals to the Pietersburg Light Horse' names survivors (May, Billingham), not additional dead. Ledger: Lieut P.F. Hunt (SAI), Capt, Killed 6.8.01. Stirling: Captain P. F. Hunt killed 6 Aug 1901 with Sgt F. Elands. Witton ch. 9: killed the night of 5 Aug 1901 attacking Cmdt Viljoen's farmhouse at Duival's Kloof (~80 miles east of Fort Edward); formerly 10th Hussars. Date stored 6 Aug 1901 from the ledger/Stirling; Witton's 5 Aug (night of the attack) noted, not overwritten.

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