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World Wars Memorial Gates
Main Cemetery, Indwe, Eastern Cape

Date:n.d.
Type:Memorial Gate
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
Alt: 1281m

Transcription of English inscription of WWI

ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
THE INDWE BOYS
WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR.
1914 - 1919

Erected for the local Indwe soldiers who died in WW1 and extended for those who died in WW2.

Transcription of Afrikaans inscription of WWII:

TER GEDAGTENIS AAN HULLE
WAT DEUR DIENS HULLE
LEWE GEGEE HET
1939 – 1945

English translation of Afrikaans transcription of WWII

IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN SERVICE
1939 – 1945