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Stereobild av elefant och skötare på Ceylon (ön döptes om till Sri Lanka 1972).
Stereo image. View of Valley of the paddy fields and charming hills- des, of Interier Ceylon- showing huge fame elephant and keeper.
Photo: Underwood & Underwood, 1902.
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Brownrigg St, Kandy.
Originally positioned along Kandy's lakeside Esplanade, this splendid bronze memorial was erected to commemorate the Boer War service of two contingents of locally-raised, European units of the Ceylon Volunteers whose ranks were drawn primarily from the white planter community in Ceylon. In January 1900, in a show of patriotic ardour and loyalty to Queen and Empire, the colonial Legislative Council of Ceylon unanimously agreed to send a 129-strong contingent of Ceylon Mounted Infantry to South Africa to contribute to the war effort. Upon arrival in South Africa, the CMI were inspected by Lord Roberts and were described in a Daily Telegraph article on 11 March 1900 as "lithe, clean-cut fellows and their 'mounts' are the hardy and wonderful Burma ponies." This first contingent saw action at Johannesburg, Pretoria, Dreifontein, Diamond Hill and Wittebergen. A second contingent of 200 infantrymen was dispatched to South Africa and arrived after hostilities had ceased in 1902 to perform garrison duties.
The memorial depicts a trooper of the Ceylon Mounted Infantry giving the signal "enemy in sight" and was designed by Geraldine Thomas nee Blake, the sister-in-law of Lt Arthur H Thomas, one of those killed in that conflict who is commemorated on this memorial; the names of the other fallen men are W Max Kelly, C Campion, QMSGT Cheyne, AS Hopper, K Hamilton, Claude C Bell and NW Smellie. It was unveiled by Field-Marshal HRH Prince Albert, The Duke of Connaught, KG, GCMG on 18 March 1907.
Given nationalist sentiment in post-independence Sri Lanka, the statue became the focal point for student protests in the 1960s and it was forcibly removed from its plinth along the Esplanade. Ever since then, it has been safely re-located within the out-of-bounds confines of the Sri Lankan Army barracks at Kandy, behind a high wall. This, along with the sun's position, would explain why I was not able to get a better photo of the bewhiskered trooper's face. Look closely at the bottom left-hand side of the plinth and you can see the sculptor's name 'Geraldine Blake' and the year '1905'.
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Kadugannawa Pass, Kadugannawa.
Representing a triumph of British engineering feats over the topography and natural obstacles of Ceylon, this 125ft column is situated at the summit of the Kadugannawa Pass (1,690ft above sea level). It commemorates Captain William Dawson of the Royal Engineers who supervised the construction of the road in 1822 from Colombo and the flat lowlands to the hill country of Kandy and beyond. The road pre-dated the arrival of the railway line which was completed in 1862.
To me, Captain Dawson represents those legions of British engineers, architects, soldiers and administrators whose sense of duty and adventure brought them to the service of the Crown in the far-flung corners of the Empire. Roads, bridges, railways, buildings, infrastructure projects were planned and completed by the likes of Dawson, frequently at huge personal cost. Captain Dawson may have laid a road to Kandy, but he was himself laid to eternal rest in 1829 by dysentery whilst surveying the Paumben and Mannar channels. In true British spirit, despite being seized by dysentery, his "well-known zeal prompted him, notwithstanding, to continue his exertions until the object he was engaged in was completed, thus enabling the disease to gain such an ascendancy as to baffle every effort of professional skill, though aided by the strongest constitution".
The inscription on this largely forgotten monument reads:-
"Captain W. F. Dawson, during the Government of General Sir E. Barnes, G.C.B., Commanding Royal Engineer, Ceylon, whose Science and Skill planned and executed this Road and Other Works of Public Utility. Died at Colombo, 28th March, 1829. By a subscription among his friends and admirers in Ceylon this monument was raised to his memory. 1832."