Eastern Cape, TARKASTAD, War Memorial

Cemetery information:- Tarkastad was laid out in 1862 on the farm Boschfontein and became a municipality in 1883. Named after the Tarka River which flows past it. Ref. New Dictionary of South African Place Names by P RAPER. eGGSA captions done by: Marielle Ford, Gail Röthlin, Dal Good & Riana le Roux. Information also available on the GGSA Cemetery DVD:- Cemetery ID: 2584 Names in cemetery: 42 Google Earth Project Information:- GPSID: 3114 GPS: -32 0.493, 26 15.663