Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial

Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial
Coordinates 33°57′50″S 25°36′22″E / 33.9639°S 25.6062°E / -33.9639; 25.6062Coordinates: 33°57′50″S 25°36′22″E / 33.9639°S 25.6062°E / -33.9639; 25.6062
Location St George's Park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Designer Boyd and Son
Type War memorial
Opening date 12 September 1882
Dedicated to officers and men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Transkei War, Basuto War, Bechuana War and the Anglo Boer War

Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial is a provincial heritage site in St George's Park in Port Elizabeth in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. The memorial is situated on top of Port Elizabeth's second oldest reservoir. On November 6, 1907 the Honourable Edgar H Walton, MLA, Treasurer General of the Cape Colony, unveiled the memorial to the fallen of the Prince Alfred's Guard.

In 1983, it was described in the Government Gazette as

The Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial is one of the largest and heaviest architectural products in the Victorian idiom manufactured by the Saracen foundry of Walter MacFarlane of Glasgow in Scotland. The structure is a fitting tribute to the memory of the officers and men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Transkei War (1877), Basuto War (1880-1881), Bechuana War (1897) and the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902).[1]

Design

On each of the four corners of the base of the memorial is a tablet bearing the names of officers and men who fell in the following wars:

At the foot of each tablet is a laurel wreath.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SAHRA - Prince Alfreds Guard Memorial St Georges Park Port Elizabeth". SAHRA. South African Heritage Resources Agency. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "St George's Park History". Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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