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Kimberley: Honoured Dead Memorial built after the Siege of Kimberley (photo 1904)
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The Honoured Dead Memorial at the crossroads of Dalham and Oliver Roads in Kimberley was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and built at the behest of Cecil John Rhodes to honour those who died defending Kimberley during the siege.
‘Long Cecil’, the field gun made and used during the siege of Kimberley, is mounted on the stylobate surrounded by shells from the Boer ‘Long Tom.
Go here for a picture of Long Cecil in 1899:
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Built of Zimbabwean sandstone, the base of the memorial bears an inscription by Rudyard Kipling, which he wrote specifically for this memorial:
"This for a charge to our children in sign of the price we paid. The price that we paid for freedom that comes unsoiled to your hand. Read, revere and uncover, here are the victors laid. They that died for their city being son’s of the land."
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There are also bronze plaques by Kipling’s father: www.flickr.com/photos/richardlewisjones/506213345/
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