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The Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial is one of the largest and heaviest architectural products in the Victorian idiom manufactured by the Saracen foundry of Walter MacFarlane of Glasgow in Scotland. The structure is a fitting tribute to the memory of the officers and men who made the supreme sacrifice
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province. The memorial is situated on top of Port Elizabeth's second oldest reservoir. On November 6, 1907 the Honourable Edgar H Walton, MLA, Treasurer General of the Cape Colony, unveiled the memorial to the fallen of the Prince Alfred's Guard.
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On each of the four corners of the base of the memorial is a tablet bearing the names of officers and men who fell in the following wars:
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officers and men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Transkei War, Basuto War, Bechuana War and the Anglo Boer War
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in the Transkei War (1877), Basuto War (1880-1881), Bechuana War (1897) and the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902).
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St George's Park
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Basutoland War (1880-1881)
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