- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 16160
- Description
- Ornate sculpted tablet of white marble against a stele of unpolished mottled grey marble. Tablet surmounted by accoutrements of a highland officer in marble: sheathed sword with buckled swordbelt, bonnet and representations of the distinguished service order and Queens South Africa medal with two bars.
Also three heraldic devices: crest of the Streatfeilds, coat of arms of the Streatfeilds, regimental badge of the Gordon Highlanders.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN ERIC STREATFEILD, DSO/ THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS, (XCII)/ FIFTH SON OF COLONEL STREATFEILD, OF CHIDDINGSTONE:/ BORN 6TH FEBRUARY 1864, DIED 24TH MARCH 1902/
INVALIDED HOME FROM SOUTH AFRICA AFTER THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH,/ WHERE HE ACTED AS ADJUTANT OF THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS/ AND WHOSE DEATH WAS DUE TO HARDSHIPS ENDURED DURING THE SIEGE.
"COURTEOUS IN HIS MANNER OF DEALING WITH ALL RANKS,/ AN EXAMPLE OF BRAVERY UNFLINCHING IN HIS DUTIES/ CAPTAIN STREATFIELD CONTRACTED THE DISEASE WHICH/ HAS NOW PROVED FATAL DURING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,/ AND THE COMMANDING OFFICER FEELS SURE THAT ALL THAT/ KNEW HIM, WILL, AS HE DOES, FEEL HIS LOSS GREATLY"/ EXTRACT FROM BATTN ORDERS