“Brave and True” read the epitaph on a Celtic Cross.
The full inscription upon the tomb reads:
BRAVE AND TRUE
IN SACRED AND LOVING
MEMORY OF
GRAHAM VINICOMBE WINCHESTER CLOWES,
LIEUTENAN, 1STBATTN,
THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS,
SON OF THE LATE
WINCHESTER CLOWES OF HITCHIN, HERTS,
KILLED IN ACTION NEAR THIS SPOT,
ON THE 30THJANUARY 1901
Situated on high ground overlooking the valley near Pakhuys Pass in a quiet spot.
His name was Lt. Graham Vinicombe Winchester Clowes of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders. His unit was here to stop Boer guerrillas from infiltrating the Cape Colony. He was killed in a skirmish while on a scouting mission on 30 January 1901.
He was buried near where he fell.
The soldier’s mother had journeyed all the way from England after the war to find this remote spot and have the memorial erected.
