On the cemetery at Matjiesfontein is the grave of Major General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope CB CMG LLD, who gave his life on 11 December 1899 at Magersfontein in the South-African War (2nd Boer War). Initially he was buried with his men there, but he was shortly afterwards exhumed and reinterred at Matjiesfontein.
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