Identity
Person No.
974
Service No.
1320
Last Name
First Name
Alfred Vernon
Initials
A V
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DIS 6,077
Died of disease
Military Service
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Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of Benjamin and Rose H. Balcomb. Brother of Miss L. E. Balcomb, of Highflats, Natal. Born in Durban. A farmer by trade. On Kearsney College Roll of Honour.
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