Boer War: Cape Mounted Rifles

CAPE MOUNTED RIFLES - ANGLO-BOER WAR

Killed in action:
Major C. F. SPRENGER
Sergeant N. E. COURT
Sergeant J. R. LEEDHAM
Sergeant J. M. REYNOLDS
Sergeant H. WARR
Sergeant W. MORRIS
Corporal F. HAINES
Corporal F. COOPER
Corporal W. REDER
Private C. ANDREWES
Private G. FOULKES
Private J. W. CHYRSTAL [CHRYSTAL?]
Private J. MCCURTIN
Private S. MORRIS
Private F. CASS
Private E. G. M. SPAN
Private G. R. HEWITT
Private P. G. STEPHENSON
Private A. J. COLLIER
Private W. L. M. JONES
Private W. BURDON
Private H. H. BELL
Private P. E. HORWOOD
Private H. BURKE
Private T. TUFFREY
Private J. H. ROBBINS
Private R. R. GARRETT
Private N. GRANT
Private A. J. HASSELL
Private W. A. BAILEY
Private G. H. TURNER
Private P. A. SHERIDAN (drowned)
Private J. MCINTYRE
Private H. P. G. BOYLE (killed accidentally)
Private H. RICHARDS (drowned)

Died of wounds:
Lieutenant H. F. B. TAPLIN
Lieutenant W. ROLFE
Sergeant J. WHALLEY
Sergeant W. H. NIXON
Corporal H. A. BATES
Private J. MCLOUGHLIN
Private A. G. THOMAS
Private B. P. SKERRETT
Private M. PAKENHAM
Private D. CORNEVILLE
Private J. MILLER
Private W. E. PIERCE
Private J. M. HOEY
Private R. R. GARTHORNE
Private T. P. FARIS

Died of disease:
Corporal F. C. CARDEW
Private C. F. M. RYVES
Private F. W. HARRIS
Private H. NEVILLE
Private E. CHAPMAN
Private A. W. N. THACKER
Private J. SMITH
Private G. HALL
Private F. KEEN
Private F. C. T. EVANS
Native Trooper: Jack Nqanduli

Source: Record of the Cape Mounted Riflemen by Basil Williams (1909)

The Cape Mounted Riflemen, Colonial (1855-1913) should be distinguished from that raised by the Imperial authorities in 1806, and bearing the same name. The Colonial Regiment was raised in 1855, with the designation of the Frontier Armed and Mounted Police. Its name was changed to the Cape Mounted Riflemen in 1878. The FAMP had an original strength of 17 officers and 500 other ranks, and until the disbanding of the Imperial CMR carried out police duties in the Eastern Province of the Cape. After that date (1870), it was increasingly called upon for military duty, either in the form of active service, or in occupying areas in which there were native disturbances. When the new title was adopted in 1878, the name of the older Imperial regiment was deliberately chosen.

Source of above: S. Monick: Military History Journal - Vol 4 No 5: http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol045sm.html

Further reading:

Boot and saddle: A narrative record of the Cape Regiment, the British Cape Mounted Riflemen, the Frontier Armed Mounted Police, and the Colonial Cape Mounted Riflemen by P. J Young (1955)

With the Cape Mounted Rifles by Thomas J Lucas (1878); various editions.

For more on Cape Mounted Rifles:
http://www.southerncape.co.za/history/military/forces/cmr/welcome.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Mounted_Riflemen

http://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/south-african-units/316-cape-mounted-rifles