Boer War Memorial, Gatton, war memorial in Gatton, Queensland, Australia

The Boer War Memorial in Gatton is a Helidon sandstone monument in a small park in front of the railway station, flanked by two large fig trees. A life-sized digger statue stands on a square plinth carved with wreaths and festoons, head bowed, hands resting on a reversed rifle, with a tree stump behind. The pedestal has corner columns with Corinthian capitals and leaded marble plaques naming four local men; a carved bugle sits above the front plaque and the Australian Light Horse insignia above the rear one.

The memorial was built in 1908 by architect William Hodgen from Toowoomba to honor four local men who died in the Boer War. It was one of the earliest war memorials in Queensland and was officially listed on the heritage register in 1992 after being relocated to its current site in the late 1970s.

The front marble plaque carries a relief-carved bugle above the names, marking that one of the four dead was a bugler; the rear plaque sits beneath the insignia of the Australian Light Horse. The memorial is also known as the Fallen Soldiers Memorial and the South African War Memorial.

The memorial stands in a small park in front of the railway station, set in a paved area flanked by two large fig trees. A short front path divides into curved paths around the monument and rejoins behind it. The pedestal's marble plaques face front and rear, so walk around to read both.

The original digger was carved from Italian marble and was described as very realistic; it was later replaced by the current Helidon sandstone figure, though when and why is unrecorded. In 1984 the monument was sandblasted to strip layers of paint. The memorial also lost its original stepped base when it was moved in the late 1970s.