Western Cape, WORCESTER district, Rural (farm cemeteries) / Western Cape, WORCESTER district, De Doorns, Hex River Mountains, Railway accident (Kaffrarian Rifles) memorial / (4 of 4 images)
Cemetery information:-
According to Paul Ash - A blast from the pass:
"The upper reaches of the Hex River mountains are a lonely and desolate place for a train wreck. On a wind-scoured slope a few miles below the summit of the railway pass, there is a stone obelisk with the names of soldiers of the Kaffrarian Rifles, whose troop train rolled off the tracks here during the night of September 26 1914."
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/travel/2011-10-23-a-blast-from-the-pass/
Album complete.
eGGSA captions by: James Anderson
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the cemetery location.
Cemetery ID: 6254
Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:-
GPSID: 7474
GPS: -33 25.344, 19 46.264
Kaffrarian Rifles Memorial_3
SINGLETON A.W.
DEVENTIER M.
BLUMRICK J.E.
HENLEY R.J.
MORIARTY A.D.
RINGSALL J.E.
SYMONS A.S.W.
VENTER C., van der
VENTER C.S., van der
VICTOR R. v.d. M.
contributed by: Rosemary Briggs
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