The 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders Memorial and Boer War Plot in New Roodepoort Cemetery.

The 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders Memorial
and Boer War Plot in New Roodepoort Cemetery

This memorial to the men of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders Memorial is in New Roodepoort Cemetery. It comemmorates the men who were killed of who died of wounds at Doornkop on 25 May 1900. Surprisingly the memorial is in a very good condition, and the original iron headstones can still be found behind the new headstones. There are also 6 headstones with no names, only the words "Here lies a British Soldier". The memorial can be found on the right hand side of the cemetery as you enter by the main gate.
New Roodepoort cemetery can be found at Google Earth co-ordinates 26°12'24.67"S 27°52'8.93"E or Download the KMZ File

The Memorial	Inscription	A line of graves	A British Soldier
J Smith 31/05/1900	A British Soldier	J Robeson 06/06/1900	A British Soldier
A British Soldier	A British Soldier	EC Saunders 14/08/1901	FJ Hinder 11/03/1902
WH Brotherhood 18/04/1902	FL Wright 00/06/1902	J McIntosh 29/05/1900	H Cattanach 29/05/1900
W Simpson E Bisset S Gordon	E Clark G Days J Kidd	D Meadon R Shearer J Newbiggen	J Taylor D Thompson J Urquart
J Wilson J Nicholson	M Meldrum GW Middelton	A British Soldier	A British Soldier
FL Wright original gravemarker	WH Brotherhood original gravemarker	FJ Hinder original gravemarker	H Cattanach original headstone