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davidh wrote: It must have taken a lot of time to put that list together.

Every so often I'd have a go at transcribing the names, but would put it away because of how many there were to do. Took me ages to complete it! .
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Major Henry Shelley Dalbiac is an odd inclusion on the memorial - he seems to have only seen active service in the ABW with the Middlesex Yeomanry, having retired from the Royal Artillery in 1887. The best account of his death appears to be here - www.samilitaryhistory.org/vol086sa.html
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. ....PACK-BERESFORD.—On the 4th March, at Bloemfontein, of enteric fever, Arthur William Pack-Beresford, Major Royal Artillery, serving with South African Constabulary, aged 33 years, second son of the late Denis W. Pack-Beresford, Esqr., of Fenagh House, Bagenalstown [County Carlow, Ireland].
The Times, Monday 10th March 1902

....The column under Col. Benson left camp just to the north of Bethel at dawn on October 30th, marching on Brugspruit.
....A certain number of Boers were about and reported to be holding Brakenlaagte, where they intended to camp. The weather was wet and stormy. The enemy were easily kept off during the march, and Brakenlaagte was occupied at 1 p.m.
....The rearguard with two guns and a screen of the Second Scottish Horse was stationed on a ridge, evidently within range of the camp.
....An attack of Boers on one flank of the rearguard was driven off, and the screen of Second Scottish Horse was being brought in when the Boers circled around under cover of the rolling ground, and attacked the ridge on which the guns were placed, under cover of a violent storm of rain and hail at their backs.
....This attack was unnoticed until the enemy had reached a position on the ridge within close range of the guns, when they shot down the escort and gun horses. Col. Benson and Col. Guinness were both shot at the guns.
Despatch from Lord Kitchener, Monday 4.11.1901
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....Colonel G. E. Benson, whose death is reported by Lord Kitchener in the attack by tbe Boers near Bethel, had played a very active part in the present campaign, and had accomplished much good work. Colonel Benson, who belonged to the Royal Artillery, served in the Soudan, and was present in the engagement at Hasheen, where he was slightly wounded, and at the destruction of Temai. He served with the expedition to Ashanti under Sir Francis Scott in 1895, also with the Dongola Expeditionary Force, under General Kitchener, in 1896, as Brigade-Major, Mounted Corps, He was twice mentioned in dispatches, and was granted several decorations. He is described in the latest Army List as Staff Officer of the Rustenburg command.
The Manchester Courier, Monday 4.11.1901
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....Lieutenant-Colonel Eustace Guinness, of the Royal Artillery, of Kelvin Lodge, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, was a kinsman of Lord Ardilaun aud Lord Iveagh, being the second son of the late Mr Henry Guinness, of Burton Hall, county Dublin. Major Guinness went out to South Africa from Newcastle-on-Tyne with the 84th Battery, and in the second honours Gazette, issued on September 27th last, was appointed a brevet lieutenant-colonel, to date from November 29th, 1900, when Lord Roberts surrendered the command in South Africa to Lord Kitchener. Colonel Guinness was mentioned by name in the account given in the Times of Thursday of the operations of Colonel Benson's column, and was apparently in command of four 15-pounder guns and two Pom-Poms.
Sunderland Daily Echo, Tuesday 5.11.1901

Some of the Officers on the memorial

Really nice piece on the memorial.

My Great grandfather attended the opening of this and it is written up in his wife's diaries which you can view her account of it online. - link below
wynnesdiary.com/1910-july-viewer-5/

Attached is a copy of the order of service, where you can also see some other bits relating to it online
wynnesdiary.com/1910-july-viewer-4/