Studio portrait of Mrs Julia Grieve (nee Robinson), widow of Lieutenant (Lt) Gideon James Grieve, ...

Studio portrait of Mrs Julia Grieve (nee Robinson), widow of Lieutenant (Lt) Gideon James Grieve, New South Wales Scottish Rifles. Lt Grieve was a Scot who emigrated to Sydney and rose through the ranks of the New South Wales Scottish Rifles to become its adjutant. He volunteered for the Boer War and was killed in action on 18 February 1900, at the battle of Paardeberg, while on secondment as a company commander to the 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch. As a mark of the high regard in which Lieutenant Grieve was held in Sydney, two memorials were erected to his memory. The first was the Grieve memorial drinking fountain on the cliff at Watson's Bay, which originally was topped by a figure of Lieutenant Grieve in highland dress uniform, the statue since destroyed by vandals. The second was the obelisk at the corner of York and Jamison Streets in Sydney, opposite Scots Church.