De Beers ‘Long Cecil’ firing at the Boers on Carters Ridge, Kimberley, 1900 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1971-09-4-140
Description
De Beers ‘Long Cecil’ firing at the Boers on Carters Ridge. Siege of Kimberley. Photo by M. Bennett. Photograph from an album of 185 photographs, 1900-1901. Associated 4th Bn (Cameronians) Scottish Rifles, 44th Bty Royal Field Artilley. Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902). ‘Long Cecil’ was a British gun built at the De Beers workshops by George Labram, chief engineer at De Beers and a key member of the besieged British garrison. It was named after Cecil Rhodes and still resides outside Kimberely Town Hall as a monument to those who fell during the Boer War.
Events
Kimberley, Siege of, 1900 (Boer War 1899-1902)