Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Trough
- District
- Tandridge
- Town
- Burstow
- County
- Surrey
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Animal Memorials, Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 23815
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Current location
Junction of Copthorne Bank with Effingham Road (B2037)
Burstow
Tandridge
Surrey
RH6 9RR
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 32226 40977
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Horse trough with a basin and tap
- Inscription
- Side of Trough: IN MEMORY OF THE MUTE FIDELITY OF THE 400,000 HORSES / KILLED AND WOUNDED AT THE CALL OF THEIR MASTERS / DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902 / IN A CAUSE OF WHICH THEY KNEW NOTHING / THIS FOUNTAIN IS ERECTED BY A REVERENT FELLOW CREATURE. // Above Trough: REFURBISHED / BY / BURSTOW / PARISH COUNCIL / 1989 // Inscribed upper fountain: W.T. 1903
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Animal Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Animal Memorials
- Components
- Trough
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Trough
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- History
- Date unknown: trough turned into a flower bed ----1989: Refurbished by Burstow Parish Council
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Comments – Photograph held in WMA 16802 file
- 'Best of British' magazine September 2017 page 51
- District confirmation m.tandridge.gov.uk/faq/faq.htm?mode=20&pk_faq=243
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