With the cost of petrol and business being tough, I haven’t had much chance to travel lately. It means I’m very quickly running out of new stuff to post. While going through photo folders tonight, I came across something I haven’t shared with you yet. Being Port Elizabeth-based means that the majority of my posts feature the Eastern Cape. It’s nice though to show off something from a little further away every now and then.
On our last visit to my daughter in Cape Town, we popped down to Camps Bay to have a look around and I was very surprised to find a war memorial. The Camps Bay War Memorial is a World War I monument located at the junction of Victoria Road and Link Street close to the beach.
The stone memorial was erected in 1920, and the central stone plaque reads:
“1914 – Great War – 1918
Erected by the Residents
– Camps Bay –
In Honour of their Comrades
Who Answered
– The Call of Duty”-
Alongside are two plaques listing the names of fallen local residents.
Interestingly, in April 1990, the Desert Shellhole of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH) Camps Bay added a “Tin hat and Light of Remembrance” to wooden beams at the top of the memorial.
