The South African War Memorial

Inscription

Lt Gen Sir Edward Robert Prevost WOODGATE, KCMG, CB

Commanding the 11^th Brigade

Died of wounds received in command of operations at Spion Kop January 24^th, 1900

Calverley Trevelyan HANCOCK

Imperial Yeomanry

Killed in action at Bethlehem, July 13^th, 1900

Lt. Harold John Stanton STANTON

2^nd Northumberland Fusiliers

Died of wounds received in action at Noostgedacht, December 1900

2^nd Lt. the hon. Hugh ROBERTSON

died from an accident in Johannesburg, February 1^st, 1900

2^nd Lt. the hon. Archibald Ronald Armadale MACDONALD

9^th Lancers

Killed in action at Krugersdorp, April 17^th, 1901

2^nd Lt. Chas. Westrow HULSE

Imperial Yeomanry

Killed in action at Braklaagte, June 4^th, 1901

Lt. George Lockhart GREENSHIELDS

Shropshire Yeomanry

Died of wounds received in action at Grootofdeling, June 7^th, 1901

Capt. Alexander Nelson HOOD

1^st Central Indian Horse & Imperial Yeomanry

Killed in action near Klerksdorp, February 15^th, 1902

Capt. Eric STREATFEILD, DSO

2^nd Gordon Highlanders

died of consumption contracted during the Siege of Ladysmith, March 26^th, 1902

The memorial contains an error. There should be ten ORs commemorated rather than the nine listed above. The original list as published on the appeal leaflet included 2^nd Lt. Hugh Fraser. He was only at Radley for one or two terms before gaining a scholarship at Eton. Lt. Fraser was killed in action at Spion Kop on 24^th January, 1900, whereas Lt. Gen Woodgate was mortally wounded in action at Spion Kop on 25^th January and died 23^rd March, 1900, and not as recorded on the memorial; obviously the two have been conflated in the inscription.

Letter proposing a War Memorial

Radleians who served in the Second South African War

Letters from South Africa sent to The Radleian magazine, 1899-1902