{On a long bronze plaque across the top of the basin:}
To the Guy's men who died in the South African War, 1899 - 1902.
{The two bronze panels carry 11 names, see Subjects Commemorated.}
2022: Sebastian Bulmer told us about AngloBoerWar which has extensive photographs of this lovely memorial and some good information about the names on it.
SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Hospital - the Colonnade
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Guy's South African war memorial
Also known as the (second) (Anglo-)Boer War. The war is described in three ph...
A "Guy's man" who died in the South African War, 1899-1902. An obituary for t...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Guy's South African war memorial
The fountain has four basins which would have supplied water but the activating buttons and the spouts are all lost. However some back-p...
A lovely fountain, with its egg-and-dart cornicing and gaping mouth, which presumably is where the functioning parts once sat.
The Latin quotation is interesting. It is from the Bible, Proverbs 3;16, and our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, translates it as "In h...
A nearby information panel provides: This is the site of the former town well which was sunk in 1816 and was a primary source of drinking...
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