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Here is a clearer, colour-tinted version of the Sallo Epstein postcard.

"No. 1260 / Intombi Cemetery, showing the Gordon Highlander's Monument".

Printer/publisher: "Sallo Epstein & Co., Durban".






DIED OF DISEASE AT INTOMBI / BETWEEN 8TH JAN’Y 1900 AND 16TH MAR. 1900

2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders –
2521 [2851] Colour-Sergeant J. TAGGART (d. 09/01/1900)
5631 Lance-Sergeant P. BRIND (d. 04/03/1900)
5473 Lance-Corporal J. McKAY (28/02/1900)
6411 Lance-Corporal N. MATHIESON (d. 16/03/1900)
5039 Drummer G. DOWNIE (d. 02/03/1900)
3285 Private J. BRYANT [T. Bryant] (d. 08/01/1900)
6285 Private T. FAULDS [H. Faulds] (d. 12/03/1900)
5803 Private W.J. McRAE (d. 24/02/1900)
6457 Private R. MATHIESON (d. 16/02/1900)
6176 Private T. PORTEOUS (died of wounds, 10/01/1900)
6013 Private J. ROSS (d. 09/03/1900, Chieveley?)
6394 Private H. SUTER (d. 20/02/1900)

1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (attached) –
4293 Private J. HOWES (d. 24/02/1900)
5929 Private H. TWELVETREE (d. 02/03/1900)



The headstone on the right is to:

Natal Police –
2308 Trooper William Parr GRACEY (d. 02/03/1900)



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From the Underwood stereo photographs of the Boer War a view of the Cemetery in Neutral Grounds near Pieter’s Hill. Two graves markers are visible for former crew members of the H.M.S. Powerful. Right the grave for Able Seaman Hans A. Lister (died of enteric on February 2, 1900) and left the grave for Private H. Newman who died three days later from same decease.

Please does anyone know if Able Seaman Edward Dunn of HMS Powerful still has a marked grave at Ladysmith, I assume perhaps not?

169637 Able Seaman Edward Frost Dunn (d. 13/02/1900) did once have a grave marker at Intombi. All the graves of the Powerful men who died in Ladysmith (c.25 at Intombi) appear to have been marked with the same form of wooden cross (with short upper arm).

Some years later, as the wood started to rot, all the original crosses were replaced with iron markers. Still later, many of these appear to have been moved from their original positions, no longer marking the grave sites they were first placed over. AB Dunn's actual resting place was in row 9, but his cross was in row 3 by the time the typed list of graves at Intombi was created (1960s/1970s?). Finally, in the 1970s, all of the iron crosses were taken down and scrapped, leaving only the marble monuments that can still be seen at Intombi today.

So, yes, AB Dunn did once have a cross, but, sadly, no longer.


PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL THE SURVIVING MONUMENTS CAN BE SEEN HERE
















FOR MORE ON THIS, SEE: Intombi Cemetery

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Hello Neville,
Thankyou for your confirmation, it never occurred to me to just open the bookcase and consult In Memoriam, of course, had I done so, I would have the answer, but, I would not be looking at the photographs you kindly posted on here, so very many thanks again.
Sincerely Frank

Frank,

Another view of Able Seaman Dunn's grave at Intombi (with detail).






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