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The 3rd Yeomanry Regiment Memorial
Kariega (Uitenhage), Eastern Cape

Date:1880
Type:Memorial
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
33°45'48.16" S 25°23'59.89" E Alt: 88m

Transcript of an announcement of the installation of the monument announced in the weekly journal The Lantern, 31 July 1880, p3.

From the collections of the Library of Parliament. Acc No 3158 (v).

Scanned and submitted by Lila Komnick.

A monument to the memory of the brave men who lost their lives in the Morssi Campaign has been erected in the park at Uitenhage. It is an obelisk of blue granite and stands sixteen feet high.