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Isipingo Mounted Rifles
Raised near Durban in 1879, the I.M.R. served on the Zululand frontier with a strength of 40 men.
They were commanded by Captain Dering Stainbank and armed with the Swinburne-Henry carbine.
At the close of the Zulu War, most of the members transferred to the Alexandra Mounted Rifles, and the corps ceased to exist.
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