Captain Eric Streatfeild DSO

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Reference WMO/107754

Address:

St Mary the Virgin Church

Chiddingstone Road

Chiddingstone '

TN8 7AH

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: Ornate sculpted tablet of white marble against a stele of unpolished mottled grey marble. Tablet surmounted by accoutrements of a highland officer in marble: sheathed sword with buckled swordbelt, bonnet and representations of the distinguished service order and Queens South Africa medal with two bars. Also three heraldic devices: crest of the Streatfeilds, coat of arms of the Streatfeilds, regimental badge of the Gordon Highlanders.
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN ERIC STREATFEILD, DSO/ THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS, (XCII)/ FIFTH SON OF COLONEL STREATFEILD, OF CHIDDINGSTONE:/ BORN 6TH FEBRUARY 1864, DIED 24TH MARCH 1902/ INVALIDED HOME FROM SOUTH AFRICA AFTER THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH,/ WHERE HE ACTED AS ADJUTANT OF THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS/ AND WHOSE DEATH WAS DUE TO HARDSHIPS ENDURED DURING THE SIEGE. "COURTEOUS IN HIS MANNER OF DEALING WITH ALL RANKS,/ AN EXAMPLE OF BRAVERY UNFLINCHING IN HIS DUTIES/ CAPTAIN STREATFIELD CONTRACTED THE DISEASE WHICH/ HAS NOW PROVED FATAL DURING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,/ AND THE COMMANDING OFFICER FEELS SURE THAT ALL THAT/ KNEW HIM, WILL, AS HE DOES, FEEL HIS LOSS GREATLY"/ EXTRACT FROM BATTN ORDERS

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