Memorial

Alyth South African War

SouthAfrican Memorial

Source: Susan Strang

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Current Location

Bamff Road by Market Square, Alyth, Perth And Kinross, Tayside, PH11 8AA, Scotland

NO 24576 48522

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Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 44754
Description: OBELISK ON PLINTH WITH INSCRIPTION FRAMED BY PILLARS
Inscription: TO THE MEMORY OF THREE BRAVE MEN DAVID STANLEY WILLIAM Ninth Earl of Airlie Lieutenant Colonel 12th Royal Lancers Killed in Action - as he had always desired to die at Diamond Hill South Africa 11th June 1900 Aged 44 NIGEL NEIS RAMSAY Younger of Bamff Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Royal Highlanders Killed in Action at Magersfontein 11th December 1899 aged 23 CHARLES JAMES WEDDERBURN OGILVY Younger of Ruthven Trooper of the Fife and Forfar Light Horse 20th Company IY Who died at Sea 6th March 1900 aged 38 SOUTH AFRICAN HEROES Erected by public subscription

War: Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Number Commemorated: 3
Died: 3
Information shown: surname, rank, regiment, forenames, manner of death, date of death, place of death, age
Order of names: rank

Memorial

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good