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Well done to the small town of Smithfiled for preserving our heritage, the site is well tended and maintained.

Hello and welcome to this forum,
Really superb photos! More please!
Wonderful to actually see the stone of Lieutenant William White who was MID on the 10th of September 1901!
Kind regards Frank

Forgot to add, am intriqued by the stone and irish harp in your avatar, who was he?
Regards again Frank

Fantastic Photo's......

Glad that they have survived, I am surprised that they have not been stolen and sold for scrap as I understand many have.....

Thanks for posting.....

Mike

Dear Frank

This is the final resting place of Colonel Philip Le Gaillais, who was KIA near Bothaville in the Free State. I may be mistaken in my understanding that he is the highest ranking British officer KIA during the Boer War. I am nerveless an admirer of his bravery and dash. On the 6th of November he almost succeeded in capering De Wet’s commando but was not reinforced. Thomas Pakenham describes the seen on page 475 of his book the Boer War. A stone memorial survives on the site of the skirmish, which I have included.

Good evening,
Philip Walter Jules Le Gallais 8th Hussars, well that certainly explains the harp of erin, "Tell my mother that I died happy, as we got the guns!" of course, had he survived he might have made mention to the prisoners too, over a hundred of them! anyway, a real pleasure to see it on here!
Regards Frank

Forgot to add, officers of General rank were KIA during the Boer War.

C Rose wrote: Dear Frank

This is the final resting place of Colonel Philip Le Gaillais, who was KIA near Bothaville in the Free State. I may be mistaken in my understanding that he is the highest ranking British officer KIA during the Boer War. I am nerveless an admirer of his bravery and dash. On the 6th of November he almost succeeded in capering De Wet’s commando but was not reinforced. Thomas Pakenham describes the seen on page 475 of his book the Boer War. A stone memorial survives on the site of the skirmish, which I have included.