Drinking
Fountain and Cattle Trough -
Keepers Corner
This is the sixth in our series of caches placed close to or
associated with drinking fountains or animal troughs.
The cache located at Keeper Corner, Burstow.
The memorial is a granite horse trough dedicated to the horses
killed and wounded during the Boer War (1899-1902).
It is now used as a flower bed. It is one of only two such
memorials, the other being situated in Winchester.
More than half a million horses and mules were used by the British
and colonial forces during the Boer War. Of these, about 350,000 or
67 per cent died. Numbers are unknown for the Transvaal and Orange
Free State, which the British were fighting.
The mamorial reads:
In memory of the mute fidelity of the 400,000 horses,
Killed and wounded at the call of their masters, During the South
African War 1899 - 1902, In a cause of which they knew nothing,
This fountain is erected by a reverent fellow
creature.
This cache is located near to this trough.
Please bring your own pencil
If any body would
like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you
could let Merstham Mafia know first so he can keep track of the
cache numbers and names to avoid duplication