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Significance in terms of artistic, historical, contextual and associational values;
Commemoration of the military role of Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin, who served in various South African wars and was Commandant General of the Cape Colony forces in 1912. He commanded the South Africans at Dellville Wood (15th of July 1916). He was captured and held for 5 days before relief arrived;
One of five Deville Wood memorials situated on the Company’s Garden Delville Wood Memorial axis, a prominent position within the city. The series of memorial highlights the importance of Delville Wood in military history in South Africa and the magnitude of loss, suffering and bravery associated with the battle;
Part of a complex of memorials designed by Herbert Baker, Kendall and Cleland at the time of the building of the National Gallery;
 Artistic and sculptural value as being the work of one of South Africa’s foremost sculptors, Anton van Wouw and located and designed by Kendall (Architect – Kendall and Mansergh)