The Heidelberg memorial site is in a demarcated area of the town cemetery, and located on a hill with a panoramic vista. The original graves have been remade in serried ranks; gravestones are placed on them randomly and do not correspond to the camp cemetery plan. There is a large imposing cairn with inserted into its walls the remains of earlier memorials, dedication stones from 1927, 1977, and 1948, with etched onto the latter a picture of the Voortrekker monument in Pretoria. Symbolic steps lead up to one of the memorial strones, with the actual remains of the dead encased within. ‘The names of the dead’ that are such a feature in many of the memorial sites are not present here.
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