Designer Boyd and Son Opening date 12 September 1882 | Type War memorial Opened 12 September 1882 | |
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Dedicated to officers and men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Transkei War, Basuto War, Bechuana War and the Anglo Boer War Similar Nelson Mandela Metropolit, Donkin Reserve, Horse Memorial, Fort Frederick - Eastern C, Red Location Museum | ||
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).
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.