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From: Murray Lynn <>
Subject: [NZ] Cape Mounted Rifles - NZ connections?
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:15:16 +1300
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Thanks to the search feature in Papers Past, I have just discovered a
long lost great-uncle John Davidson ROBINSON. According to family
recollection he died in the Boer War, but there was no trace of him in
the NZ Boer War records and so I was beginning to doubt the story.

It turned out that he was a trooper in the Cape Mounted Rifles and died
of a fever in Dec 1902 (after the war ended), aged only 19,.in King
Williams Town.

The Cape Mounted Rifles appear to have been a regular South African Army
unit based in King Williams Town. Does anyone know anything about them
or why a New Zealander (especially one so young) would belong to such a
unit?

Kind Regards

Murray
Christchurch
New Zealand

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