The Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa was a voluntary organisation which identified, marked and maintained Second Boer War graves and military graveyards.
[1] A prominent founder member was the author and conservationist, Dorothea Fairbridge (1862–1931).
[2] The Guild was founded in early 1900, and by June of that year had 3,000 members mainly in the Cape Colony.
[3] Although the members considered themselves non-political (in the sense of local party politics) as the name suggests the movement attracted members from those loyal to the British Crown,[3] and it received royal patronage in December 1900.
[2][5][6] To The South African Guild of Loyal Women is a poem about the organisation written by Cicely Fox Smith (1882–1954).