The Memorial heading is inscribed:
TO THE MEMORY OF OFFICERS, NCOs & MEN OF THE 3RD DRAGOON GUARDS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ACTION DIED OF WOUNDS & DISEASE DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN OF 1899 TO 1902 The Memorial includes the Roll of Honour. The bottom of the Memorial records that THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES
The 3rd (Prince of Wales') Dragoon Guards served in the Second Anglo Boer War from January 1901 to after cessation of hostilities in May 1902. The Regiment operated in the guerrilla phase of the War in the Orange River Colony, especially the Vrede district, and Transvaal.
Memorials in the Cathedral
Lt Col Frederick Miller VC Memorial
Captain George Pilkington, RE
Colonel Edmund Hartley VC, CMG
3rd Dragoon Guards Anglo-Boer War Roll of Honour