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==Place name tributes== ===England=== In England the [[Royal Corps of Transport]] barracks at [[Aldershot Garrison|Aldershot]] is named after him, as is a road in [[North Camp]] between Farnborough and Aldershot, and Buller Court in Farnborough (built upon the site of Buller House). Two adjacent roads near the underground station in [[Wood Green]], London, namely Redvers Road and Buller Road (adjacent to [[Mafeking, South Africa|Mafeking]] Road), bear his name, as do a road in [[Brighton]], Buller Road in [[Southampton]], Redvers Buller Road in [[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]], Derbyshire (adjacent to [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden Powell]] Road and Lord Roberts Road (after [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Lord Roberts of Kandahar]])), Buller Street in [[Derby]], Buller Road in Croydon and Buller Street and Mews in [[Bury, Lancashire]] (yards from the old Lancashire Fusiliers Wellington Barracks on Bolton Road). [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]] also has a Redvers Road and a Buller Road next to each other, opposite a Natal Road, and adjacent to roads and avenues named after some other Boer War Generals: [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Haig]], [[Herbert Kitchener|Kitchener]], [[Penn Symons|Symons]] and [[George White (British Army officer)|White]]. Leicester also has a Buller Road adjacent to other streets named after Anglo Boer War Generals. Brighton also has a Redvers and a Buller Road, along with other references to the war: Mafeking Road, Ladysmith Road and Kimberley Road nearby. Buller Road in Exeter is close to Redvers Road, crossed by Nelson Road. Exeter School has a Buller House. ===Canada=== In [[British Columbia]] Buller Street in [[Ladysmith, British Columbia|Ladysmith]] is named after him, near Roberts Street and Kitchener Street. The town of [[Redvers, Saskatchewan|Redvers]], in Saskatchewan, is named after him. In [[Ontario]], Buller Street in [[Woodstock, Ontario|Woodstock]] is named after him. ===Trinidad and Tobago=== Buller Street in [[Port of Spain]] is one of seven streets bearing the names of officers of the British Army who distinguished themselves during the [[Second Boer War]]: [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Roberts]], [[Herbert Kitchener|Kitchener]], [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]], Buller, [[Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen|Methuen]], [[Hector MacDonald|MacDonald]] and William Forbes Gatacre.
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