North Canterbury News: August 31, 2023
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24 The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Restored ... The finishing touches being put to the Boer War Memorial in Markham Street,<br />
Amberley.<br />
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Memorial restored on site<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
ABoer War memorial, flattened by a<br />
vehicle in Amberley’s Markham Street, is<br />
standing proud again.<br />
It has been pieced backtogetherafter<br />
the lamp and middlesectionofthe<br />
memorial weretoppled.<br />
The memorial is in honourofBoer War<br />
Farrier Sergeant, Owen HerbertTurner,<br />
who was killed in action.<br />
HeritagebuilderJames Drewery,who<br />
was engaged by the Hurunui District<br />
Council, has ensured it has beenreturned<br />
to its formerglory.<br />
The memorial, on an island at the<br />
Douglas Road, MarkhamStreet<br />
intersection, originallyhad agas lamp on<br />
top, but it was apparently struck by atruck<br />
in 1965.<br />
The lamp was recreated, fundedbythe<br />
Amberley and District Lions Club, with<br />
presidentRobbieBruertondoing the<br />
work.<br />
It was officiallydedicated on February<br />
20, 2014,withAmberley Returned Services<br />
Association members taking part in a<br />
ceremony at which Balcairn member, Ray<br />
Sturley ,officiated.<br />
Farrier SergeantTurner was killed on<br />
February 23, 1902, along with22other<br />
soldiers of the 7th New ZealandMounted<br />
Rifles, duringanengagement with Boer<br />
forces at Bothasberg, also known as<br />
‘‘Langverwacht’’ in OrangeFree State,<br />
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28 <strong>August</strong> - 3 September<br />
SouthAfrica.<br />
AlongwithFarrier Sergeant Turner,<br />
nine otherAmberleyarea BoerWar<br />
soldiers wereremembered at the rededication:<br />
John Robert Armstrong,<br />
Maurice Boyce,John Brydon, William<br />
John Moore,Harry Ernest Oppenheim,<br />
John Phillips, Frederick GeorgeScott,<br />
John Bayntun Starkyand Benjamin Lewis<br />
Symonds.<br />
Four of the 10 did not returnfrom South<br />
Africa.<br />
Trooper Oppenheim was killed in action<br />
at Reinfontein,east of Pre toria, on<br />
November 29, 1900.<br />
Trooper Boyce died of typhoid, in<br />
Pretoria on January 12, 1901. Private<br />
Moore also died of disease, succumbing to<br />
dysentery in Pretoria on April 12, 1901.<br />
All are remembered on aplaque which<br />
hangs in the Returned Services<br />
Association Room in the Amberley<br />
Library.<br />
The Boer War between 1899and 1902<br />
was the first overseas conflict to involve<br />
New Zealandtroops.<br />
By the time peace was achieved, 10<br />
contingents of volunteers, totalling over<br />
6500 men and 8000 horses had sailed for<br />
Africa, along with doctors, nurses,<br />
veterinary surgeons and teachers.<br />
Seventy›oneNew Zealanders were<br />
killed in actionordied of wounds,with<br />
another 159 dying in accidents or as a<br />
result of disease.<br />
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