Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
2824DD25
Site Name
Honoured Dead Memorial, Memorial Road, Kimberley
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:16
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Monuments
Monuments & Memorials Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Friday, March 5, 2021 - 00:05.
Identifiers
Classifications
Monument Type
Description
This monument was built to honour the memory of Fredrick Labram who designed the gun known as Long Cecil and was killed by a Boer shell in Kimberley
Contains Animal figures?
No
Contains Human figures?
No
Construction Materials
Concrete
Cast iron
bronze
Stone
Pedestal Material
Concrete
Bricks
Person/Institution Commemorated
Inscriptions
In honoured memory of George Fredrick Labram born Detroit Michiganu SA who designed this gun known as long Cecil and was killed by a Boer shell at Kimberley in the 9th February 1900. This for a change to our children in sign of the price we paid the price that we paid for freedom that comes unsoiled to pour hand read revere and uncover here are the victors laid they that died for their city being son's of the land.
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Location
Location
Mapping
-28.751375, 24.769397
Northern Cape
- Frances Baard
- Sol Plaatje
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Street Address
Land Parcel Reference
Memorial Road
Memorial Road Area
Kimberley
Memorial Road Area
Kimberley
Directions to Site
High
Access details
Public Accessible
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
Cecil John Rhodes commissioned Sir Herbert Baker to design a memoria
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
The Honoured Dead Memorial, as well as the Long Cecil cannon, together with one metre of surrounding land, situate on a portion of the remainder of Portion 240 of the farm Bultfontein (now known as the Remainder of Erf 1, Kimberley), situate in the City of Kimberley, Division of Kimberley.
Certificate of Consolidated title 212/1959, dated 28 April 1959.
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
10113
Gazette Notice Status
Notice Date
Notice Number
392
Deeds Number
212/1959 dated 28 April 1959
Archive Status
National Monument
10113-392d.pdf (88.15 KB)
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