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A new postcard.
Hlangwane-The line of the guns 15 Dec 1899
Can anyone identify the momerial on the right?
The two stamps on the front of the postcard have the postmark Modderfontein.
The back of the card shows the cards posted to Paris from Johannesburg in 1904





Paul

Paul,
That is a super card, is this not the gun line of 14th and 66th Batteries Royal Field Artillery, I am sure Brett will know.
Regards Frank

LOL Paul,
You know, I often think about Charles Long and I look upon him in the same way I would for Baroness Thatcher!
A man who said what he believed and really, I suppose, did exactly what he said he would do!
Kind regards again Frank

Hi Frank,

I think you are correct. There were markers placed where Long's guns had been and also a memorial obelisk to the Officers of the 2 RFA involved, the men that fell and of course to Fweddy!. see link:
www.za-places.co.za/places/longs_guns_site_24.html
A lot of the memorials have been relocated to the Clouston garden of rememberence. see link:
sa.travel-directory.co/385/sub-places/kw...arden-of-remembrance

regards, Iain

Frank Kelley wrote: Paul,
That is a super card, is this not the gun line of 14th and 66th Batteries Royal Field Artillery, I am sure Brett will know.
Regards Frank

With the Clouston website, if you click on a small pic it becomes full size. If you then click on the full size pic, it gives you a description at the top and arrows at the bottom whereby you can move pic by pic.
Interestingly there is the graves of the 4 ILH Troopers buried at Chieveley also in the garden of remembrance. I'm not sure when the original monument was erected but it has the crossed flags on it.
In another pic, the large cross has the NC badge at the top.

Hello Iain,
Those links are very interesting, good clear photographs too, you can really walk up to and touch the history in Natal today (with a suitable escort, I suppose) it really is quite remarkable!
Kind regards Frank