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Death from Talana Hill Wounds

Great Britain · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1899Date range
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Chronological records

1899

William Penn Symons23 October 1899

Dundee · Warfare / Boer War, 2nd

Symons dies from wounds received while commanding British forces at the Battle of Talana Hill.

Names involved

William Penn Symons

Provenance

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