Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Bassetlaw
- Town
- Worksop
- County
- Nottinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 7th August 1903
Attended by: Field Marshal Lord Grenfell GCB
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 27174
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Current location
On outside wall of town hall
at Bridge Street end of Potter Street.
Worksop Town Hall
Potter Street
Worksop
Bassetlaw
Nottinghamshire
S80 2AD
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 58461 78677
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- St Cuthbert and St Marys Church
Worksop
Bassetlaw
Nottinghamshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SK 580 789
Denomination: Undefined
- St Cuthbert and St Marys Church
- Description
- Marble tablet with pediment at top and shelf at base. Mounted on slate backing. Protected at top with pitched roof attached to wall of town hall. Relief at top of tablet of field gun.
- Inscription
- IN SACRED MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ NATIVES OF THIS TOWN/ WHO FELL IN THE CAMPAIGN/ SOUTH AFRICA 1899 TO 1902/ "HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN/ IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE"/ II SAMUEL. I. 25.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barton, W
Brammer, E
Cresswell, T
Finbow, R W K
Hall, J
Hawson, W
Riggott, J
Williams, A G
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename initials, surname.
Order of information: Rank
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 1120MM, width 870MM
Materials: Marble - Carrara
- Tablet
- Listing information
- WORKSOP TOWN HALL
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Boer War Memorial
- WMO ID: 205695
- Condition: Good [last updated on 22-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
- Responsibility
- Bassetlaw District Council
- Reference
- 233P
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