The Honoured Dead Memorial is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province. It is situated at the highest point in Kimberly, at the meeting point of five roads, and commemorates those who died defending the city during the Siege of Kimberley in the Anglo-Boer War.
Cecil John Rhodes commissioned Sir Herbert Baker to design a memorial which commemorates those who fell during the Kimberley Siege.
Rhodes sent Baker to Greece to study ancient memorials - the Nereid monument at Xanthus greatly influenced his design.
The monument is built of sandstone quarried in the Matopo Hills in Zimbabwe and is the tomb of 27 soldiers.
The Long Cecil gun that was designed and manufactured by George Labram in the workshops of De Beers during the siege is mounted on its stylobate (facing the Free State). It is surrounded by shells from the Boer Long Tom.
The memorial was dedicated on 28 November 1904.
