Significance
Boer commandos attacked Colonel Benson's No. 3 Flying Column at Bakenlaagte on 30 October 1901.
IN MEMORY OF NCOs AND RIFLEMEN KING'S ROYAL RIFLES MOUNTED INFANTRY KILLED IN ACTION AT BAKENLAAGTE 30th OCTOBER 1901 This stone in erected as a token of affection and regard by their comrades
Also in the memory of CIVIL SURGEON C.M. ROBERTSON 6550 RIFLEMAN J. EGAN KILLED IN ACTION AT KAFFERSTAD 27TH OCTOBER 1901 (26 October 1901 according to some sources)
Bakenlaagte battlefield is in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, on the Kriel-Kinross road close to the intersection of the R547 and the R580.
Further reading
Bakenlaagte 30 October 1901 by Robin Smith
Memorials in the vicinity
84 Battery Royal Field Artillery Memorial
ABW Memorial (Baakenlaagte, Bethal, Boksburg, Boschmanskop, Devon, Leslie, Nooitgedacht, Oshoek and Springs)
Knights Deep War Memorial
Queen's Bays Leeuwkop 1 April 1902 Memorial
Scottish Horse Bakenlaagte 30 Oct 1901 Memorials
2nd Bn, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Bakenlaagte Memorial
Primrose Township Great War Memorial