Eland , Frank (F)

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: 148 Eland Frank Sergt, enlisted 15.4.01, Killed 6.8.01. Stirling spelling Elands. Witton: Sergeant Eland shot dead in the same attack as Capt Hunt; son of a local settler whose farm adjoined Reuter's Mission; formerly Natal Carbineers; buried near his home.