{On a long bronze plaque across the top of the basin:}
To the Guy's men who died in the South African War, 1899 - 1902.
{The two bronze panels carry 11 names, see Subjects Commemorated.}
2022: Sebastian Bulmer told us about AngloBoerWar which has extensive photographs of this lovely memorial and some good information about the names on it.
SE1, Great Maze Pond, Guy's Hospital - the Colonnade
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Guy's South African war memorial
Also known as the (second) (Anglo-)Boer War. The war is described in three ph...
A "Guy's man" who died in the South African War, 1899-1902. An obituary for t...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Guy's South African war memorial
This drinking fountain was erected in 1878 in memory of Robert Besley, who had run a typeface foundry in Fann Street 1849 - 61. This 1887...
Most of this decorative rim has been lost. Only this 'Junius' section and, to the left of our photo, a much weathered section on which 'M...
{On the east face:} In memory of Sir James John Hamilton Bart., 1876The memory of the just is blessed.{There are 3 more biblical quotati...
There is a non-working drinking fountain at the other end of the trough.
Wesley built the chapel first, 1778, and then two houses, one either side, one for his own use and one for visiting preachers and their hangers-on. Both designed by George Dance the younger who als...
They don't seem to have a website of their own but we did find this: The Fabric of Our Town, "put together by Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, in partnership with Crayford Manor House Histo...
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