A scouting party of 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) on a kopje, 1900 (c)

Bronze-painted plaster bas relief by Adrian Jones, 1905 (c).

This bas relief depicts a scouting party pausing on a kopje (hillock) during the Boer War (1899-1902). A soldier peers over the edge of a cliff, while two more creep forward in support while a third in the foreground holds their horses.

Before his career as a professional sculptor, Jones served as a veterinary officer in the cavalry, and fought in Abyssinia (1868), the Transvaal War (1881) and the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-1885). This work was used as a modello for the central plaque in the Carabiniers' war memorial on Chelsea Embankment in London.