The Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial

The Royal Artillery Boer War Memorial stands in the City of Westminster, close to St James’s Park and beside The Mall. It commemorates the Royal Artillery soldiers who served in the Boer War, honouring their contribution and sacrifice. Around it, ceremonial London and parkland meet, with the Duke of York Column rising above a nearby flight of steps.

The conflict, fought from 1899 to 1902, involved British forces and the two Boer republics in South Africa. The memorial keeps that military history within a landscape of monuments and ceremonial routes. The Mall regularly provides the setting for state occasions and royal processions. This setting also reached the cinema in the James Bond film No Time to Die. In one sequence, Dr Madeleine Swann crosses the street, with St James’s Park on her left. The memorial appears in the scene, connecting the war commemoration with a modern screen story. She then walks towards the Duke of York Column and climbs the steps to her office.

Nearby Carlton House Terrace extends the same mix of architecture and film history. Its façades have appeared in Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Crown, Sherlock Holmes and Cruella. From the memorial, the route towards the column links soldiers’ remembrance, royal ceremony and a Bond scene in one stretch of Westminster.