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Caesar's Camp Cemetery

Ladysmith, uThukela District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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    Coordinates: -28.58929, 29.78344
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Caesar's Camp cemetery is located in two parts close together at the East end of the Platrand ridge, to the South of Ladysmith. During the siege of Ladysmith during the Second Anglo Boer War (1899-1902), the British troops defending the area had named its features Wagon Hill to the west and to the east Caesar's Camp. In the early hours of 6 Jan 1900, Boer forces attacked Ladysmith with the main effort on the Platrand ridge. The Heidelberg Kommando stormed Caesar's Camp which was defended by the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment and the Kings Royal Rifles and they were quickly reinforced. The attack lasted all day leaving 175 Brtitish soldiers killed and 249 wounded. The bodies of 52 Boers were left in the British positions, but their total casualties were not recorded. The bodies of those killed around Caesar's Camp were buried in the cemetery and are commemorated on various Regimental memorials.
Caesar's Camp cemetery is located in two parts close together at the East end of the Platrand ridge, to the South of Ladysmith. During the siege of Ladysmith during the Second Anglo Boer War (1899-1902), the British troops defending the area had named its features Wagon Hill to the west and to the east Caesar's Camp. In the early hours of 6 Jan 1900, Boer forces attacked Ladysmith with the main effort on the Platrand ridge. The Heidelberg Kommando stormed Caesar's Camp which was defended by the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment and the Kings Royal Rifles and they were quickly reinforced. The attack lasted all day leaving 175 Brtitish soldiers killed and 249 wounded. The bodies of 52 Boers were left in the British positions, but their total casualties were not recorded. The bodies of those killed around Caesar's Camp were buried in the cemetery and are commemorated on various Regimental memorials.

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