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In the Church of St Bartholomew the Less (the chapel for St Bartholomew's Hospital), London.

That is a very fitting memorial for Dr Landon. Thank you for sharing that, Berenice.

I was looking for information on Arthur Landon and re-found your post, Berenice.

The British Medical Journal in 1895 carried a letter which read ‘I believe I am right in saying that when, on the approach of the Boers], the militant representatives of this country deserted their commander and ran helter-skelter down the hill, Surgeon Landon stood calmly beside Sir George Colley. The latter was shot dead on the spot, and at the same moment a bullet crashed through Landon’s spine, completely paralysing his lower extremities, but leaving him a few hours of life and consciousness. I believe it was one of the enemy, a Boer, who was his last patient and that Landon was so annoyed at the bungling attempts made to inject morphine to sooth the poor Boer’s agony that he exclaimed ‘Here, prop me up, and let me do it.’ He himself speedily succumbed to the effect and before breathing his last said to one of the bystanders ‘Tell those at home that I died doing my duty.’