Fighting Mac Memorial

This memorial was erected to a colourful Victorian soldier near the farm where he was born in 1853. He enlisted as a private and rose through the ranks to become a Major General. A scandal which provoked his suicide is considered to have been initiated by the upper classes who resented his promotion from a humble beginning.
Robert Service wrote a poem about him entitled 'Fighting Mac' and James Scott Skinner wrote a fiddle tune called 'Hector the Hero'.
The memorial bears the inscription,
Erected by the friends of his youth.