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Identity
Person No.
49637
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
P J
Initials
P J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
Military Service
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
COLONIAL 402
Colonial forces (pre-Union)
Death Record
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Executed by firing squad, at Pretoria
Location
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Unknown
Grave Reference
Unknown
Notes
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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: Handcock P.J. (Sergt) Lieut, Executed (same sentence block as Morant). Witton ch. 20: shot with Morant at dawn 27 Feb 1902, Pretoria. Date stored from Witton/Morant's ledger date. Three children mentioned in Witton's last-night account.

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