On Sunday, residents gathered at the Boer War memorial in Robertson Park to commemorate those who served in the war, and on Wednesday Orange delegates will attend a ceremony in Canberra to unveil its first Boer War memorial.
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The delegates will include Orange councilor Reg Kidd and Helen Haynes, who was involved in the campaign to get the memorial built and installed.
“It’s the only war that hasn’t got a memorial in Canberra,” Cr Kidd said.
Cr Kidd said of the 1000 Australians who died in the Boer War, four were from the Orange region, including the mayor’s son S J Smith, while another man who died, J Beasley from Lucknow served under the name Gander due to mishap.
Other notable figures were Sir Neville Howse who earned a Victoria Cross during the war and is the only medico to have earned one, Andrew Barton Paterson, served as a war correspondent at the age of 35, and Breaker Morant, who was famously executed by the British during the war, had been a horse breaker at Byng.