What looks like a normal gravestone is actually a memorial to Redcar soldiers killed in the Boer War. Corporal Wilson Wiles wounded at Paadeburg (this is spelt incorrectly on the stone it should be Paardeberg) died 5 months later in hospital.

Privates Hardy and Wilkinson who were killed at Paardeberg and Outhwaite who died of ‘enteric’ which we would now know as typhoid.
The memorial was recently restored by the Friends of Redcar Cemetery.

A sketch exists if the newspaper of the time, although it should noted it says he was the fifth Redcar soldier to be killed, so someone is missing from the memorial (the name on the side is from 1940 presumably Wiles brother)

Possibly this Private Hodgson

This mosaic was comissioned by Friends of Redcar Cemetery and unveiled on 1st September 2013

The artist was John Todd who also did the Mo Mowlem mosaic

Among those present were Rev Rachel Harrison, Ian Swales MP, Redcar and Cleveland’s Mayor Vic Jeffries, Lord Zetland, and the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Anthony Wharton.

This memorial to Sir Rex Hunt (29 June 1926 – 11 November 2012) is due to be unveiled on Friday 6th September 2013 at 3.30pm.

Sir Rex Hunt was born nearby on Laburnum Road, he is best known for being Governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 invasion.

The memorial has a governor’s sword hanging from the side as Sir Rex is remembered for meeting the Argentine invaders wearing a full dress uniform with ostrich plumes and a sword.