A Memorial was erected to the memory of the men from the 1st Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment who fell on 6 January 1900 at Wagon Hill, Ladysmith. It stands on the exact spot where the charge took place.

It bears the following inscription :

The Memorial to those who died on 6 January 1900.

Erected by the Devonshire Regiment on Wagon Hill

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN SINCERE MEMORY OF

THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE

1ST BATTALION DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT

WHO FELL IN THE GALLANT AND

SUCCESSFUL CHARGE MADE ACROSS THIS

PLACE BY THREE COMPANIES DURING THE

FIGHT ON 6th JANUARY 1900.

SIEGE OF LADYSMITH

Captain W. B. Lafone

Lieutenant H. N. Field

Lance-Corpl. J Pigeon

Lance-Corpl. W. D. Pratt

Lance-Corpl. A. Vern

Private T. Bamsey

Private A. Bevan

Private J. Bibb

Private W. Brown

Private A. Curtis

Private W. Davidson

Private W. Fair

Private W. Harvey

Private E. Hornsby

Private F. Litton

Private H. Marden

Private W. Newcombe

Private F. W. J. Page

Private G. Roper

Private J. Seager

Private W. Woods

Lieutenant C. E. M. Walker , Somerset Light Infantry (attached)

"SEMPER FIDELIS"

Thanks to Mildred Dooner, who during the Boer Wars, painstakingly collected and published, in 1903, all the details she could find of commissioned officers killed during the various campaigns in South Africa, information about them is easy to find.

Not so the non-commissioned men. Throughout the South African Campaigns, they were invariably indexed only with initials and the name of their regiment (not the battalion) by the Army. Service numbers were not recorded in this index. Without Christian names and ages, tracking down individuals calls for real detective work and even then, 100% accuracy cannot be guaranteed.