National Boer War Memorial

National Boer War Memorial

Key Information

Memorial Name
National Boer War Memorial
Address

Anzac Park, Reid ACT 2612

Memorial Type
Statue
Conflicts
South African War (Boer War), 1899–1902
Dedication Date
31 May 2017
Memorial Designer

Louis Laumen (Sculptor) Pod Landscape Architecture & Jane Cavanough (Designers)

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"You wonder if the war is worth the price"

Boer War 1899 - 1902

When the dash and the excitement and the novelty are dead,
And you’ve seen a load of wounded once or twice,
Or you’ve watched your old

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The National Boer War Memorial
The memorial design depicts mounted Australian troopers as they seem to break through the trees onto Anzac Parade
The four troopers represent a four-man section for fighting and patrolling.
The four-man section
The figures are one and a half life-size
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Another view of the Troopers
The first information panel
The second information panel
The third information panel
The fourth information panel
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Bronze replica journals showing extracts of letters of Private Frederick Harper Booth
Private Booth served with the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
A letter showing Booth's excitement after arriving in Cape Town and the contingent moving in column
Part of a letter describing the capture of a railway station
Letters telling of the reality of life on the veldt
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Illness, hunger and action
A Boer ambush
Disenchantment with remounts
The sadness of the scorched-earth policy
The lead Trooper
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The Memorial face, with a section of the poem On the Trek by AB Patterson
From On the Trek, by AB 'Banjo' Patterson
A Trooper, alert and watchful
Each Trooper is watching for signs of the enemy
The Memorial commemorates the first war in which Australia participated as a federated nation
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Frances Emma Hines' name on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial
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Selfless Devotion and Sacrifice

As Australia moved towards Federation the individual states still maintained their own defence forces. While the political leaders of the soon-to-be Federated

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