Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

 

ADELAIDE 5000

MEMORIAL: Monument

LOCATION: Corner North Terrace and King William Street

ORIENTATION: West

 

DESCRIPTION: SOUTH AFRICAN WAR MEMORIAL. A life size bronze statue of a mounted trooper reigning in his horse surmounted on a 3.6. metre high red Murray Bridge granite pedestal. On each face of the pedestal are bronze plaques made from gun plates.

 

INSCRIPTIONS: 

Face:

Bronze wreath and ribands

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL

-SURGEON MAJOR-

J.T. TOL

-CAPTAINS-

M.G. HIPWELL.

S.G.HUBBE.

-LIEUTENANTS-

L.W.J. GORDON.

J.W. POWELL.

-REGT. SERG. MAJOR-

J. McGILLIVRAY.

-O.M.S.-

O.F. SCHUMANN.

-SERGEANTS-

J. HAMILTON.

C.E. McCASE.

C.J.B. MERCER.

-SERGEANTS-

R. MURRIE.

W. RUST.

-CORPORALS-

C.W.B. CURRIE.

J.H. HEINJUS.

T.J. KLAFFER.

F.S. WHITE.

-LANCE CORPLS.

- R.T. BARRON.

R.F. HAMP.

-TRUMPETERS-

C.G. DAVIS.

E.S. MARSHALL.

-SADDLER-

E.H.E. MITCHELL.

Left:

SOUTH AFRICAN WAR

1899-1902

THIS TABLET RECORDS THE DESPATCH

ON MARCH 7. 1900 OF THE
"SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BUSHMEN'S CORPS."
THE COST OF EQUIPMENT, AND OF THE PARTIAL
MAINTENANCE OF THE CORPS IN THE FIELD FOR OVER TWELVE
MONTHS WAS DEFRAYED BY PRIVATE SUBSCRIPTION.
THIS FORCE CONSISTED OF 100 OFFICERS AND MEN,
AND WAS THE THIRD OF NINE CONTINGENTS
NUMBERING IN ALL 1531 MEN SENT FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Back:

Bronze wreath and ribbands
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL
 

-TROOPERS-

W.S. BARBER.

E. BARTLETT.

H.E. BEARE.

A.J. BENNIER.

W.A. BROWNLEY.

B.H. COCHRANE.

E.G. CROFT.

W.R. EWENS.

D.H. GIBB.

J.E. GLUYAS.

-TROOPERS-

H.E.GOODES.

G.L. HARDEY.

F.W. HIRTH.

C.F. HONNER.

N. HORSEFALL.

S. LANSDELL.

H.G. MAIN.

T.B. MARSDEN.

A.E.C. MARSHALL.

F.G. MATHEWS.

-TROOPERS-

B.H. MAY.

C.F. MILLMAN.

J.H. MOORE.

A.W. NICHOLAS.

W.H. OGILVIE.

A.S. PAGE.

A.T. PALMER.

H.E. PROSSER.

R. SIMMONS.

J.D. SLOAN.

-TROOPERS-

W.E.SMITH.

J. SPILLANE.

H. TAEUBER.

W.D. TEATE.

F.J. TOTHILL.

A.A. VICKERY.

C.R.D. WALTER.

C.G.C. WHITTLE.

H.P. WOODHAM.______________

Right:

ERECTED
BY
THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
TO COMMEMORATE THE VALOUR
OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS OF THE STATE
WHO FOUGHT IN THE
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
1899-1902
UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY
SIR GEORGE RUTHVEN LE HUNTE. K.C.M.G. JUNE 6^TH 1904

WHEN UNVEILED: 6 June 1904. By Governor Le Hunte on the third anniversary of the Battle of Graspan

MANUFACTURED BY: Designed and sculptured by Captain Adrian Jones M.V.O. Mason; W. Laycock. Bronze plates and ribbands supplied by A.W. Dobbie and Co. Architects, Garlick, Sibley and Wooldridge

MAINTAINED BY: Adelaide City Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: RSL memorial pamphlet. Mortlock library SA research notes 213. 23 Feb 02.