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Australians
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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.
| Surname | | KER |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | George Dundas |
| Regimental Number | | 229/33755 |
| Rank | | Trooper |
| Unit Name | | Bushveldt Carbineers |
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Extracts and Comments
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Source:# 186 KERR next of kin from SA, enlisted BVC 4.1901.
Source:# 251 British Intelligence Dept., killed in action 22.12.1901.
Source:# 287 family say KER, born 1865 in Tilley's Swamp, later Kooringa/Burra SA, went with horses for Imperial troops, Roberts H., BVC, Int. Dept., killed in action at Warmbaths, grave in Pietersburg Garden of Rest.
Woolmore1: also Orphen's Horse, next of kin Miss May KER Adelaide Children's Hospital, grave originally at Elandsfontein.
URL2: not found.
Source:# 661 KER not KERR, name transcribed incorrectly by BVC recruiting officer at Maitland S.Af. but correctly for Roberts Horse, killed while a Scout with Field Intelligence in Transvaal on 22.12.1901.
URL3: ?37 Trooper KER GJ enlisted in Orpen's Horse 1.2.1900.
Roe: WO127 BVC roll KER George Dundas Tpr. 229.
Roe: WO127 Roberts' Horse roll, KER George Dundas Tpr. 9136.
Source:# 1429 Trooper George Dundas KER (sometimes mis-spelt KERR) Tilleys Swamp SA, Scout Field Intelligence Department when killed in action.
Served in Orpen’s Horse and in Robert’s Horse from 14.5.1900 to 11.3.1901.
Enlisted in the BVC at Maitland on 2.4.1901 and discharged from the BVC on
16.10.1901. He was reported missing believed dead, near Warmbad on 22.12.1901.
On 3.1.1902 the South Australian newspapers carried a report of the death of George Dundas KER being killed in action in the Transvaal on 22.12.1901. The report stated that he and another Intelligence Officer had been foully murdered near Warmbaths. They went to a lonely spot to parley with some Boers who had pretended that they desired to surrender, and while engaged in conversation were shot dead by some burghers who were in hiding. Lord Kitchener officially denied that the FID operatives had fallen victim to treachery, but modern scholars of those months in late 1901 and early 1902 would not rush to believe the official denial. George KER was buried at Elandsfontein but in the 1960s his remains were moved to the Garden of Remembrance in Pietersburg where his name appears on the Boer War memorial.
URL4: KERR GD Intelligence Corps died 22.12.1901 on memorial in Pietersburg N. Transvaal.
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Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 186
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 251
Sydney Tel.: Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper date(s) 17.1.1902
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 287
Woolmore1: Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse page(s) 219
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 661
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1429
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