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Battle of Witpoort

Today, this area is a well tended farm and in the north, the level ground over which the Boers charged is now a wattle plantation.


Harold Lothrop Borden

In Halifax, Nova Scotia the base of the South African War Memorial has a panel commemorating the Battle of Witpoort.

The death of Lieutenant Harold Lothrop Borden at Witpoort on 16 July 1900 occurred when Lieutenant John Edgar Burch and he, while assisting the Royal Irish Fusiliers and some New Zealanders withstand a Boer assault on Witpoort ridge, led a counter-attack.


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