Basotholand Gun War Memorial, Uitenhage

South African Military History Society

Also known as Basuto Gun War Memorial

Photo: Pat Irwin

Location
Uitenhage, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Corner Park Avenue and Cannon Street

GPS: 33 deg 45 min 47.96 sec S, 25 deg 23 min 59.45 sec E

Photo: Pat Irwin

Significance
The Memorial commemorates local men who served in the Morosi's Mountain Campaign in 1879 and the Basotho Gun War in 1880-1881

Photo: Pat Irwin

Inscriptions on the Memorial are

ERECTED BY
THE 3RD REGIMENT OF YEOMANRY
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
H.A. REED LIEUT C TROOP GRAAFF REINET
T. JOHNSTON TROOPER B TROOP HUMANSDORP
A. JOHNSTON TROOPER
C.F. MEYER TROOPER
A. HASTINGS TROOPER
C.H. LOUWRENS TROOPER
P.P. LOUWRENS TROOPER
P. FERREIRA TROOPER
C. MASON TROOPER C TROOP GRAAFF REINET
C.H. THORNTON TROOPER
W. HANNAN TROOPER D TROOP SOMERSET EAST
WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION AT MOROSI'S 
MOUNTAIN 1879

Photo: Pat Irwin

ALSO
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
THE FOLLOWING YEOMEN
WHO FELL IN THE BASUTO CAMPAIGN
1880-81
CAPTAIN C.D. BRENNER.
SERGEANT T.E. HALL.
TROOPER ARTHUR COLLING

Photo: Pat Irwin

ALSO
IN MEMORIAM
TROOPER A. HEINE
DIED AT UITENHAGE 3RD FEB 1879
TROOPER C. JAPPE
DIED AT ALICEDALE 1ST SEPT 1881

Further reading
Cape Colony Volunteer Units 1877-79 by J J Hulme
Basotoland Roll of Honour 1851 - 1881 Compiled by Major G. Tylden, ED
Morosi's Mountain 1879: A Royal Engineer's Report by J J Hulme
'Blaming Brabant' -another look at the so-called military 'disobedience' of Captain, Later Major-General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, KCB, CMG by S I Blackbeard
Moorosi's Mountain 1879 by Hamish Paterson

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