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Event EVT-000240

Daniel Coghill is killed by lightning on Lemoenrietfontein

15 February 1900 · local · Prince Albert

A twenty-seven-year-old British soldier from Beaufort West, buried where he fell, on a portion of Rietfontein. "Not gone from memory love / but gone to his father to rest above." The date is the headstone's; SRC-068's prose says 1901 in the same paragraph. See LEAD-0043.

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