Remembering

NOT many places in Britain still have prominent war memorials commemorating the country's battles against the Boers of South Africa.

But I am currently visiting Hull, East Yorkshire, where such a memorial exists, and is more prominently sited than a nearby cenotaph marking the two world wars.

The South African memorial, with the cenotaph behind

The plaque bears the words: Erected by public subscription to the memory of the men of Hull who lost their lives during the South African War 1899, 1900, 1901 & 1902.