Also known as the Kingswood Cadet Detachment Memorial
GPS: 33 deg 54 min 46.95 sec S, 18 deg 24 min 55.03 sec E
Significance
As Boer commandos under Generals Jan Smuts and P.H. Kritzinger moved through the Eastern Cape, Grahamstown prepared for a possible attack.
School Cadets from St Andrew's College, Kingswood College and Grahamstown Public School (now Graeme College), were deployed on the perimeter of the town for about ten days in March 1901.
The Kingswood Cadets occupied positions on Makana's Kop. The closest the Boers came to Grahamstown was Carlisle Bridge, approximately 50 km away.
This Plinth erected from stone gathered on Makana's Kop commemorates the Kingswood Detachment that served there with other School Cadets in the defence of Grahamstown when the Smuts and Kritzinger Kommandos penetrated to the Carlisle Bridge area of the Eastern Cape from 10-25 March 1901
With the proceeds of their ration money voluntarily donated, the Victor Ludorum Cup was purchased and given to the School to mark the event