Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Rand Regiments Memorial Eckstein Park, Johannesburg, Gauteng BAKER and FLEMING: Project Architect Edwin Landseer LUTYENS: Architect Naoum ARONSON: Artist Sculptor

Date: 1910 Type: Monument Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°09'50.30" S 28°02'27.70" E Alt: 1681m

(Afr Archt Jun 1914) Transcribed wording of granite Foundation Stone THIS STONE WAS LAID BY FIELD MARSHAL H : R : H : THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT KG XXX:NOVEMBER:MCMX Transcribed wording of commemorative inscription around high level frieze: TO MEN OF RAND REGIMENTS AND TO RAND MEN WHO FELL IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899 1902 Transcribed wording of polished octagonal black granite commemorative plaque set in the stone path way on west side of Memorial, and unveiled during the rededication function: ON 10 OCTOBER 1999 THIS MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF ALL RACES AND ALL NATIONS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE ANGLO BOER WAR 1899 - 1902. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference Rand Regiments Memorial Geurst, Jeroen. 2010. Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010. pg 78, 80, 415 Hussey, Christopher. 1950. The life of Sir Edwin Lutyens. London : New York : Country Life : Scribner's. pg