Leicester Post

Leicester Post, also known as Rooi(red) Fort, bristled with defensive works of great strength and dwellings equally palatial to those at Kings Post and built by the Rifle Brigade. There was not quite so much underground, as the lie of the land rendered this unnecessary, providing, as it did, a certain amount of cover of itself. Here the habitations were to a great extent built of corrugated iron and match-boarding (the result of raids on tin camp and elsewhere), and anything else that would stand up and keep off sun and rain, and, if possible, missiles.

I have been unable to find any photographs of the Post from the siege period. The one shown above was taken prior to the “clean up” instigated by the Regiment for the centenary.

1999 centenary Tom Marston laying wreath at refurbished memorial