Spion Kop Battlefield Memorials

Information signs at the Memorial Site

The Spion Kop Battlefield, graves and memorials are maintained by Heritage KZN. The battlefield was proclaimed as a heritage landmark in 1978.^[1] The site is open to the public and an overview of the battle as well as a map of the battlefield is available at the entrance gate.

Memorials[]

Boer memorial[]

Boer memorial

A stone memorial with four faces erected by the Second Field Force Battalion in remembrance of all Boer Officers and Burghers that died on Spion Kop.

British memorial[]

British memorial

This stone memorial has 6 faces dedicated to

2nd Battalion, The Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Major General Sir Edward Woodgate, the 17th Field Company Royal Engineers,
Lancashire Fusiliers
Scottish Rifles
Middlesex Regiment

Imperial Light Infantry memorial[]

memorial on Spion Kop

Other[]

Memorial to James James Raymond Mallock of the Lancashire Fusiliers

Spion Kop Memorial to Captain Naunton Henry Vertue of the 2nd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

South Lancasters memorial
Two mass graves
A number of individual graves and memorials, including that of Major General Sir Edward Woodgate.

Memorials in planning[]

Spionkop Lodge, located on the farmstead that Redvers Buller used as headquarters before the Battle of Spion Kop, has recently announced plans to erect a new memorial in remembrance to the . It is expected that the monument will be unveiled in 2010 with the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Spion Kop.^[2]