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English: Boer war casualty An obelisk in St Mary's churchyard surmounts this memorial to Sgt. David James Sandsbrook who died of wounds a few days after his Welsh Regiment battalion fought the Boers at Driefontein on the way to Bloemfontein in 1900.
"On the 10th March a strong force of Boers barred the way at Driefontein posted on the heights. The 1st Battalion were ordered to storm the heights, whilst the Yorkshires and the Essex moved round on either flank. The ground was bare, and afforded no cover. The advance was made fifty yards at a time under heavy fire. Two more battalions were thrown into the fight, and eventually the whole line fixed bayonets and charged. The Boers fled to their horses and disappeared, our cavalry failing to round them up." The battalion lost 140 men, and many more were wounded. |
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