
CAERNARFON
BOER WAR MEMORIAL
Boer (South African)
War Detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2013
The
Caernarfon South African War Memorialm stands at the top of Twthill,
a hill overlooking the town. It takes the form of a Wheel Cross mounted
on a tapering shaft on a three-tiered plinth. The first face has a plaque
that carries the inscription and the other three faces contain plaques
gicing the rank, name and force that the men served with. In was unveiled
by the Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire and dedicated on 4 July 1904;
the builders were Messrs Hugh Jones & Co. There are 24 names listed
which have been sorted here into alphabetical order for ease of reading
and research. Although cleaned in 1991 it is starting to become illegible
through weathering and may be wrongly transcribed due to this.
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Photograph
Copyright © Martin Edwards 2013 |
THIS
MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN
MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS
COUNTY WHO DIED SERVING THEIR
COUNTRY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
1899-1902.
CAMERON |
George
Duncan |
Trooper
1799, Natal Mounted Police. Died. Aged 29. Killed on 24 Apr 1901
at Mahlabatini. Commemorated on the Cameron Family Headstone in
Bangor, GWYNEDD, Wales. |
DAWES |
E |
Private,
2nd Battalion, Scotts (sic) Guards |
DEVERELL |
Harry |
[Hard
to read] Private 7302, 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died
of sisease on 8 May 1900 at Kimberley. |
EAMES |
Thomas
Richard |
Dresser,
Welsh Hospital. Died of disease on 27 May 1900 at Springfontein. |
EVANS |
W |
Private
1787, 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Killed on 25 Oct 1900
at Frederikstad. |
GOODWIN |
George
Charles |
|
GRAHAM |
J |
Sergeant
4277, 3rd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died of disease on
2 January 1901 at Kimberley. Commemorated on 1899-1902 Memorial,
Kimberley West End Cemetery and buried there. |
GRIFFITH |
J
M |
Shoeing
Smith, Denbighshire Hussars |
JONES |
Charles
[Vaughan] |
Sergeant
7417, 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died of disease
on 5 May 1900 at Cape Town. |
JONES |
J
I |
Private
7464, 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Died of disease on 19
October 1900 at Bloemfontein. |
JOYCE |
W |
Private
5627, 1st Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment. Died of dysentery
on 9 March 1900 at Ladysmith. |
KELLY |
W |
Private
2554, 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Disease on 8 June 1902
at Elandsfontein. |
LONG |
J
B K |
Trooper,
Norfolk Yeomanry |
MALLEN |
T |
[Hard
to read] Private 2823, 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Died
of disease on 13 May 1900 at Kimberley. |
METCALFE |
J |
Lance-Corporal 3185, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed on
28 November 1899 at Modder River. |
ROBERTS |
David
Ewan |
Trooper
1080, Kimberley Light Horse. Wounded 22 July 1900, died of those
wounds 22
July 1900 at Potchefstroom. |
ROBERTS |
E |
Private
2728, 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died of disease on 5
September 1901 at Potchefstroom. |
ROBERTS |
J |
Private
5927, 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Wounded Slightly on
29 March 1900 at Karee Siding. Died of enteric on 31 May 1900 at
Bloemfontein. |
ROBERTS |
Owen |
Lance-Corporal 3625, 29th (Denbighshire Hussars) Company, 9th Battalion,
Imperial Yeomanry. Killed on 13 November 1900 at Abraham's Kraal.
Buried at Abraham's Kraal. Also listed on Llandudno
South African (Boer) War Memorial |
ROWLANDS |
J |
Trooper
689, 2nd Brabant's Horse. Prisoner of War on 30 May 1900 at Spitzkop,
released on 5 June 1900 at Pretoria. Died of enteric on 12 November
1900 at Durban. |
SOPER |
A
[E] |
Private
2323, 2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).
Died of disease on 29 December 1900 at Harrismith. Also listed on
the Maidstone, All
Saints Church, Kent memorial |
SOPER |
George |
Lance
Corporal 6878, 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).
Killed on 11 December 1899 at Magersfontein. |
WILLIAMS |
W
H |
Private,
4th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died of disease |
WILLIAMS-ELLIS |
[John]
Roger |
2nd
Lieutenant. 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Killed in action
9 October 1900 at Dwarsvlei. Aged 19. Born December 1880. Son of
Rev. J.C. Williams-Ellis, of Glasfryn, Carnarvonshire. Buried at
Krugersdorp.
Extract
from The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa
1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner, published by Naval and Military Press
Williams-Ellis.-2nd
Lieut. John Roger Williams-Ellis, 1st Batt. Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
was killed in action at Dwarsvlei, Oct. 9th, 1900. He was the third
son of the Rev. J. C. Williams-Ellis, of Glasfryn, Carnarvonshire,
sometime Fellow and Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 2nd
Lieut. Williams-Ellis was born in Dec., 1880, and was educated privately
and at Rossall. He entered the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from the Royal
Military College in Dec., 1899, and embarked immediately for Natal,
joining the battalion soon after the relief of Ladysmith. He then
served with Major-Gen. Barton's Brigade for the relief of Mafeking,
and was present at the action of Rindam and the march to Krugersdorp.
He fell while leading a section of his company against a Boer position.
2nd Lieut. Williams-Ellis is buried in the cemetery at Krugersdorp.
A tablet has been erected in his memory in Llangybi Church, and
bears these words :
"He
reached by Duty's path.
A life beyond the life he lost." |
Last
updated
24 July, 2022
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