NAM.1990-06-374-1

A scouting party of 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) on a kopje, Boer War, 1900 (c). Plaster bas relief, by Adrian Jones (1845-1938), 1905 (c). Bronze-painted plaster relief; a soldier peers over the edge of a cliff, two more creep forward in support while a third in the foreground holds their horses; a maquette for the central plaque in the Carabiniers’ war memorial on Chelsea Embankment. Before his career as a professional sculptor, Jones served as a veterinary officer in the cavalry, and fought in Abyssinia (1868), the Transvaal War (1881) and the Nile Expedition.

Boer War (1899-1902)