Boer War Memorial, Edzell
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 7 March 2020
Edzell is a village in Angus, Scotland, about six miles from Brechin. We stopped there on our way down from Aberdeenshire hoping to go to Edzell Castle but it was shut for the winter.
I did however find a Boer War Memorial standing in a railed enclosure just off the road through the town. It takes the form of a Celtic cross inscribed, “To the memory of gallant soldiers belonging to Edzell & District who fell in the Great Boer War 1899-1900-1901-1902. ‘Decorum est pro patria mori.'”:-
From south, remembering Lt Colonel D T Laing, killed near Lindley, 3/1/1901, aged 41:-
Reverse, dedicated to Private James Paterson, killed Magersfontein, 11/12/1899, aged 21; Private James Candy, killed at Paarderberg, 18/2/1900, aged 30, and Private William Walker, died of wounds, Wyndberg, 22/3/1900, aged 21:-
From north, dedicated to Colour Sergeant David Christison, killed Magersfontein, 11/1/2 1899, aged 30, and Trooper W A Mcnab, died at Kroonstad, 23/2/1902, aged 21:-
Tags: Boer War, Boer War Memorial, Brechin, Edzell, Edzell Castle, Kroonstad, Magersfontein, Paardeberg, Second Boer War, South African War, War Memorials, Wynberg
