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In Christ Church, Hepple, Northumberland.

Major Henry Edward Buchanan Riddell, King's Royal Rifles. Wounded at Lombard's Kop on 30th October 1899 and being smitten with fever during the siege of Ladysmith died at Pietermaritzburg on 16th March 1900 aged 40.











The woodwork of the altarpiece (not the painting of it) is a memorial to Lieutenant Colonel Robert George Buchanan-Riddell and was presented to the church by his widow in 1903. The painting of the woodwork, and of the screen, was part of a scheme of decoration as a thankoffering for victory in the Great War, and as a memorial to the men of the district who served in it.







TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PIOUS MEMORY OF THREE BROTHERS WHOSE BODIES
LIE IN AFRICA AWAITING THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

CHARLES SYDNEY
BUCHANAN-RIDDELL
PRIEST IN THE
UNIVERSITIES MISSION
DIED AT MAGILA
JUNE 1886.

ROBERT GEORGE
BUCHANAN-RIDDELL
LT COLONEL IN THE KING'S R RIFLES
KILLED IN ACTION AT
SPION KOP
JANUARY 1900.

HENRY EDWARD
BUCHANAN-RIDDELL
MAJOR IN THE KING'S R RIFLES
DIED MARCH 1900 AFTER WOUNDS
RECEIVED AT LOMBARD'S KOP
OCTOBER 1899.

THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY
THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST +



(The right-hand third of the plaque must be in more sunlight than the rest as it's become faded.)

Berenice,

These are fabulous pictures, It is excellent that you are preserving their memory.

And a big thank you to you too, David, for providing us with somewhere to share their memory.

The environment is the easy part. You are doing all the hard work!

Here are photographs of Maj HE Buchanan-Riddell and his brother, Lt.Col RG Buchanan-Riddell.

Berenice
Thank you for showing these beautiful and moving memorials. Lt-Col. R G died because of the leadership blunders at Spioenkop. I wonder if Buller in later years lost sleep over the needless death of that gallant officer.
Regards
Brett