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Englemere House, exterior. Photograph from an album of 12 interior and exterior views of Englemere, Lord Roberts’ house in Ascot, Berkshire, 1906 (c). The photograph shows two pieces of artillery mounted in the garden. The first more visible gun is associated with the service of Lord Roberts’ son, Lieutenant The Hon Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts. He was the first person to be posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross; he died from wounds sustained while trying to retake this gun at Colenso in 1899. The second, hidden behind the pergola, is one of the six guns of the Elswick Battery, used during the Boer War (1899-1902). To help the war effort it was melted down for scrap during the Second World War.

Boer War (1899-1902)