Anglo-Boer War British Cemetery, Bethlehem
Photo: Derek Walker
Location
Bethlehem, Free State Province, South Africa.
Muller Street Cemetery, Bethlehem
GPS: 28 deg 14 min 1.35 sec S, 28 deg 18 min 1.06 sec E
Photo: Derek Walker
Significance
The Anglo Boer War British Cemetery in Bethlehem has graves of British soldiers who died in the Eastern Free State in 1900-1902. It is one of the larger British War Cemeteries in the region.
Photo: Derek Walker
Photo: Derek Walker
The epitaph on one of the graves is
IN MEMORY OF
LIEUT ARTHUR MELVILLE SOUTHEY
2nd BATTN SCOTS GUARDS
KILLED IN ACTION AT KRANTZFONTEIN NOV 22ND 1900
ELDEST SON OF
CAPT ARTHUR HOWARD SOUTHEY
OF EASTLEIGH COURT WARMINSTER, WILTSHIRE