HMS Powerful, Royal Marine Light Infantry, South Africa.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Private H. T. Cartwright
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Royal Marines
The statue and the reliefs are by Jones with Jackson responsible for the arch...
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James Richard Stanhope
He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. Entering the House of Lords on the death of his father, he became 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope.Â
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, South Africa
Sir Fabian Ware
Founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Born Bristol. Became a teacher, moved into education management and worked in the Transvaal. Back in Britain he edited a newspaper. In WW1, too old f...
Manche Masemola
An Anglican catechumen from South Africa who was killed by her animist parents at the age of 16. She had refused to stop visiting the missionaries who came to her town to convert them to Christianity.
Sharpeville Massacre
This took place near the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws (these were an internal pa...
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