Photo: Gavin Withers

The Memorial Plaque is inscribed:

IN
REMEMBRANCE OF
CAPTAIN
ARTHUR STORMONT
MURRAY
OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE
THIS MEMORIAL
IS ERECTED BY
HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE
ELIZABETH MARY.
HE DIED
ON THE 30TH OF AUGUST 1848
OF WOUNDS RECEIVED
IN ACTION
AT
BLOEM PLAATS
THERE ALSO REST
SIX MEN OF HIS COMPANY
JOHN BARRETT
CHARLES MARTIN
JOHN DAUNAHY
JAMES DAY
JAMES THOMAS
GEORGE HOLLISTER
WHO EMULATING THE EXAMPLE
OF THEIR CAPTAIN
FELL IN THE PERFORMING
OF THEIR DUTY

The Memorial originally stood about 25 metres from St George's Cathedral in what is now the Cathedral parking area.
It was moved to the corner of Wale and Queen Victoria Streets in 1986.
Since being vandalised, the Memorial is stored in the Cathedral Crypt.
The base of the Memorial remains on the corner of Wale and Queen Victoria Streets.

Photo: Gavin Withers

Memorials in the Cathedral
Battle of Boomplaats Rifle Brigade Memorial
Battle of Boomplaats British Roll of Honour
Lt Col Frederick Miller VC Memorial
Captain George Pilkington, RE
Colonel Edmund Hartley VC, CMG
3rd Dragoon Guards Anglo-Boer War Roll of Honour