The Dutch Corps Monument is a provincial heritage site in Kliprivier in the KwaZulu-Natal district of South Africa.
In 1982 it was described in the Government Gazette as
This memorial, which was designed by G. Moerdyk of Pretoria, was built by the firm Barker and Nel of Volksrust and was erected by the citizens of The Netherlands in memory of members of the Dutch Corps who died during the battle at Elandslaagte on 21 October 1899.Famous quotes containing the words dutch, corps and/or monument:
“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.
“The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility—and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city’s throat.
Its Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)