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My son chanced upon this monument in Edinburgh last week.

Officers
Non-commissioned officers and men
Who were killed in action or died from wounds

Major General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope CB CMG
Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Collier Coode
Major Ernest Maxwell Willshire

Captains
Hon James Frederick Thurlow Cumming Bruce
Brevet Major Henry Scott-Turner
William MacFarlan (Adjutant)
Eric Godfrey Elton
Cecil Eykyn
Brevet Major Frederick Dymoke Murray

Lieutenants
Frederick Guthrie Tait
Herbert Cecil Willoughby Berthon
Nicholas Gifford Edmonds
Nigel Neiss Ramsay
J G Grieve Permanent Staff N S Wales Attached

Colour Sergeants
John McMillan
William Mitchell
Joseph Patterson
James Robertson

Sergeants
Thomas Godfrey
Herbert Harrison
John McCrone

Lance Sergeant
Charles Sharp

Corporals
John Armstrong
George Balfour
Frederick G Cameron
Alexander Jess
Joseph Henry Kenny

Lance Coporals
J Browning
Kenneth Caldwell
Alexander Fraser
Richard Halkett
Charles James
J McDonald
Charles P Roote
W G Scott
James Sinclair
E A Soper
Thomas Ward

Drummer
James Smith

Privates

James Adams
James Ames
James Anderson
George Archer
George Armit
John Armstrong
Alexander Barr
Andrew M Bett
Alexander Black
Frank Bond
James Bremner
Robert Brown
James Bruce
John Cameron
William Cameron
James Candy

Robert Chambers
Henry Connelly
George Cowan
George Cummings
William Cuthbert
John Dickson
Harry Doble
Robert Douglas
George Dryburgh
William Drysdale
Charles Fox
John Fox
William Gardiner
Joseph F Gibbs
John D Gibson
James Glennie

Thomas Gowrie
James Grant
Robert Gray
Alexander Greig
John Hardie
James Harris
Robert Henderson
James Hickie
David High
David Hill
William Hindle
Henry Holden
George Huntington
William Kedie
David King
John Kirkwood

James Laird
Charles Lauder
William Macdonald
William Maclaine
James Mann
James Massie
Adam Masterton
Hugh Maxwell
John McColl
John McGregor
James McHardy
Isaac McKinght
John McMillan
Thomas Moore
James Morris
James Mudie

James Mulholland
John Ogg
James Patterson
John Pert
John Powrie
George Robertson
John Robertson
Ernest G Robins
Angus M Ross
W A Scott
Ambrose Scullin
James Sharp
Thomas Simpson
James Sinclair
Edward Smith
Thomas Smith

Edward H Spicer
Frank Stark
Robert Stevenson
David Steward
Maitland Tait
Robert Taylor
Joseph Thompson
Edward Tolmie
Thomas W Turkington
David Watt
James T Waterman
Andrew Whitehead
Robert Wilson
John Wilson
John Young

Officers
Non-commissioned officers and men
Who died from disease

Captain Stuart Robertson
Colour Sergeant David Swan
Sergeant John Tyrie
Lance Sergeant George Thomson
Lance Corporals Charles Davidson, William Mitchell, John Robson
Drummers George Brown, Herbert J Ridgewell

Privates

Samuel Allison
William Aitkenhead
Robert Balmain
James C Bayne
Peter Black
Robert Blackhall
William Bolton
John M Boyes
James Bruce
George Buchanan
James Butchart
William Campbell
James Christie
William Christie

James Coupar
David Cowie
David Cowley
Michael Docherty
David Dorward
A Duncan
Thomas Duncan
William Farquhar
David Fraser
Peter Cagan
George Glasgow
David Gow
James Grant
James Hall

John Harkins
William Hastie
David Henderson
Joseph A Henderson
Robert Howie
James Jack
Alexander Kidd
William B King
Patrick Lamont
John Leonard
James McAnarney
Thomas McConnel
Peter McDiarmid

James McFarlane
John McGing
John McGreel
Alfred Matthewson
Robert Moore
James Mudie
Lawerence Murray
John Oerral
Alfred Parker
Alexander Petrie
Ernest Redfearn
William Rogers
Peter Russell
Robert Russell

Andrew L Sampson
John Scott
Thomas Shirlaw
John C Sim
Robert Small
Mark Sinclair
Maurice Spareham
Thomas Sparling
Alexander Thomson
Richard Trueland
William Walker
William Walton
John Woodcock
John Wright

David
You have trained your son well! Now that my younger son lives in a more congenial environment in England, he too has developed interests that suit mine. I will alert him to watch for memorials in the out-of-the-way places he visits.
Regards
Brett

Brett,

That sounds a great idea. I was thinking that we should create a master list of memorials and then tick them off as they are visited and recorded. I was not aware of the two memorials in Edinburgh and stumbled on them by chance. There was a previous thread about the Scottish Horse memorial in Edinburgh but there may be others too.

Best wishes
David

David
There are even surprises to be found in South Africa. Until recently, I did not know that there is a Norwegian Settlers Cemetery in Port Shepstone on the Natal South Coast, and I was amazed to find that the Cemetery includes a memorial to the men of the Border Mounted Rifles who died during the Boer War - not just the Norwegians and not just the men from Port Shepstone, but a proper memorial to all the casualties in southern Natal's volunteer regiment. There may be other similar memorials specifically for local regiments in the Boer War elsewhere in South Africa, but I do not know of them.
The BMR memorial features in the Genealogical Society of South Africa's 'Gravestone Project', but it is a view of one side only and it is copyrighted, so I am arranging for someone to photograph all sides and I will then post the results on this site.
Regards
Brett