Galbraith Cole was commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars as a second lieutenant on 7 March 1900,[1] at age 19, and went to South Africa for service in the Second Boer War.
[2][3][4] Following the end of the war in 1902 his regiment went to India,[5] while Cole is reported to have returned home on the SS Saxon which left Cape Town for the United Kingdom in early October 1902.
[6] Resigning from the army due to an injury from the Boer war, he made his way to Kenya where his sister Florence had married the prominent settler Lord Delamere.
Cole was deported to German East Africa after he shot dead a farm labourer for stealing one of his favourite Merino rams, imported from New Zealand.
Blind in one eye, using a wheelchair, and in constant pain owing to his rheumatoid arthritis, he shot himself in 1929 at age 48, at his favourite spot, the viewpoint where his memorial now stands.