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The Buller Memorial Committee was created in a meeting held in Exeter Guildhall in October 26th, 1901. The committee members were Albert Edward Dunn (Mayor of Exeter, 1900-1901), Edwin Charles Perry (Mayor of Exeter, 1904), J. A. Loram, T. Moulding, W. Wreford (Deputy Mayor of Exeter, 1901), E. J. Domville, T. Linscott (Mayor of Exeter, 1905), C. J. Ross, and W. H. Steer.
October 1901 was a critical moment in Buller's own career and his subsequent legacy. Buller had come under heavy criticism from British newspapers for the Army's performance in the Second Boer War, and he was subsequently relieved of his army command on October 22nd, 1901. Given the Exeter meeting was held four days later, the campaign to build a statue for Buller was very much shaped around this controversy over his historical reputation.
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26 October 1901
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- Eight Hundred Years of Exeter's Mayors and Lord Mayors
- Peter Donaldson, Remembering the South African War: Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013) - Open Access
- 'Indignation Meeting at Exeter', Western Daily Press, October 26 1901, British Library Newspapers
- 'Above Party', Western Times, October 26 1901, p. 2. British Library Newspapers
- 'Gen. Buller', Western Times, October 29 1901, p. 6. British Library Newspapers
- 'The Saviour of Natal', Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, September 7, 1905, British Library Newspapers
Equestrian statue of Redvers Buller, Exeter