Dunbar Boer War Memorial
Posted in War Memorials at 20:32 on 15 July 2014
This is situated on Queen’s Road and is dedicated to members of the Lothians and Berwick Yeomanry who fell in the South African War 1900-1.
This is the wording on the cartouche:-
You’ll note it ends, “Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori” – words made savagely ironic by Wilfred Owen as the result of a later war.
The reverse of the memorial commemorates the Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry who fell in the two World Wars:-
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