Farrier Sergeant Robert Whinham, N Battery, 5th Brigade R.A. |
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John
Thanks for posting - great to see new pictures emerging. Peter |
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Peter Ewart
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John
Many thanks for posting this, and also to the family for granting permission. Presumably a little cdv and not a cabinet? The memorial card is also a very interestig survival. Alan A very recent memorial isn't it? Where did they place it - out where the guns started or nearer where they were finished off? P. |
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Alan
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Isn't that the one that's been there for a while east of Isandlwana or a new one? Martin? I notice that Google Earth is a lot clearer there now.
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Alan
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Martin tells me that the RA Memorial is positioned about 500 metres east of the (modern day)
entrance to the battlefield where 2 7-pounder guns were sited at about 12.30pm on 22 January 1879. He supplied a picture from 2004 so this isn't a (very) recent memorial. |
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John Young
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Alan,
The Royal Artillery Memorial was unveiled on 22nd January 1999, by His Majesty King Goodwill & the then Master-Gunner of St. James's - Field Marshal Lord Vincent. I believe it was the last memorial to be placed on the battlefield. John Y. |
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Peter Ewart
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Thanks Alan & John
So it's out on the front line where the RA started. Don't recall seeing it in 2000 and certainly didn't take a snap of it. The near edge has a slightly unfinished air about it, as if it should have had some sort of kerb attached, so that it looks as if has just been laid down on the ground - which I suppose it has, really! Is the far end raised off the ground a bit, producing a partly elevated slab? Very nice design & well engraved by the look of it. Let's hope it's the last addition, though: But one monument alike is shared by all. Towering above the sad and fatal field, the lion-shaped Isandhlwana rears its rugged crest to the sky; and, looking on that stern defiant frontlet keeping its silent watch for ever over our fallen countrymen, I could not but realise how grand a monumental stone Nature had provided, as though to shame the puny efforts of Art. (Mitford 1883) P. |
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