Significance
Boer commandos attacked Colonel Benson's No. 3 Flying Column at Bakenlaagte on 30 October 1901.
The Memorial is inscribed
ERECTED
BY THE STATE OF VICTORIA TO THE MEMORY
OF THE OFFICERS, NCOs AND MEN WHO WERE
KILLED IN ACTION AT BAKENLAAGTE
CAPT M.W.M. INGLIS 2nd SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
CAPT A.W. LINDSAY ATTACHED SCOTTISH HORSE
LIEUT J.D. KELLY 30 OCT 01
followed by the names of NCOs and men of the 2nd Scottish Horse killed 30 10 01
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
ABW Memorial (Baakenlaagte, Bethal, Boksburg, Boschmanskop, Devon, Leslie, Nooitgedacht, Oshoek and Springs)
Kings Royal Rifles Mounted Infantry Bakenlaagte Memorial
84 Battery Royal Field Artillery Memorial
Knights Deep War Memorial
Queen's Bays Leeuwkop 1 April 1902 Memorial
2nd Bn, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Bakenlaagte Memorial
Primrose Township Great War Memorial