WO127 is a set of 22 cardboard boxes housed in the National Archives.
Each box contains a set of books or papers relating to a South African unit
from the Boer War. The records represent a list of the men who
served in that unit. While there is variation between the records,
the information (usually) consists of:
Regimental number
Surname
Forename / initials
Rank
Date joined and place of enlistment
Date left and place of discharge
Previous and subsequent service
Not all the nominal rolls in the NA index are to be found in the
boxes when these are retrieved from the archives. For these units,
their names have been greyed out in the list below.
Some nominal
rolls are also not in the box referenced in the NA index.
The Reserves book contains a list of men, all of whom have been
crossed out. There are therefore no images from this book.
The information is usually presented on a double page of an
index-tabbed book. The names, ranks and dates are usually on the
right hand page. The prior and subsequent service on the left hand
page. Many of the nominal roll images are of the right hand page
only.
For reasons that aren't wholly clear, not everyone who served in a
unit appears on the nominal roll.
The number in brackets after the unit name is the number of images on
that unit's page.
Lastly, note that the units in the following list are in alphabetical
order not in the order they appear in WO127.
