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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Sculptured / Cast group
- District
- Omagh
- Town
- Omagh
- County
- Tyrone
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Maker
- SYDNEY MARCH (Sculptor)
MESSRS ELKINGTON & CO LTD (Founder / Foundry) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 25th November 1904
Attended by: DUCHESS OF ABERCORN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 41352
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- Previous locations
- High Street
Omagh
Omagh
Tyrone
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- High Street
- Description
- THE BASE IS OF GREY GRANITE WITH TWO FIGURES IN BRONZE REPRESENTING WAR AND DEATH SEATED ON A PROJECTION EITHER SIDE- WAR, WITH SWORD IN HAND ON THE LEFT, DEATH WITH A PALL AND GATHERED ROSES ON THE RIGHT. BENEATH, ON COPPER PANELS, ARE FIGURES OF AN OFFICER AND PRIVATE OF THE REGIMENT IN SERVICE UNIFORM ON EITHER SIDE, AND THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE WAR. THE WHOLE IS SURMOUNTED BY A FIGURE REPRENTING FAME STANDING TRIUMPHANT OVER WAR AND DEATH, HOLDING IN HER RIGHT HAND THE PALM OF VICTORY AND IN HER LEFT A WREATH OF LAURELS. ON THE FRONT FACE AT TOP, ALSO IN COPPER, IS THE BADGE OF THE REGIMENT, THE CASTLE OF INNISKILLING, WITH THREE TURRETS FLANKED ON EITHER SIDE WITH THE SPHINX AND WHITE HORSE, AND ON A SCROLL "THE ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS" A GRAND, HEROIC FIGURE IN A SWIRLING MANTLE HOLDING ALOFT THE CROWN OF VICTORY WITH BROODING FIGURES CROUCHING OR SITTING ON MINOR PLINTHS ON EITHER SIDE(ROWAN).
- Inscription
- TO COMMEMORATE THE GALLANT CONDUCT OF THE ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS IN THE BOER WAR, 1899, 1900-1-2. THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THEIR MANY FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS, IN THIS THEIR NATIVE REGIMENTAL DISTRICT AND ELSEWHERE, TO ALL THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE REGIMENT WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THAT ARDUOUS CAMPAIGN, IN THE HOPE THAT THOSE WHO SUCCEED THEM MAY CHERISH CLEARLY THE SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENTS OF THEIR PREDECESSORS AND ENDEAVOUR ON ALL OCCASIONS TO BE WORTHY OF THEIR GRAND INHERITANCE.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 194
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: 194
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Sculpture
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Copper
- Sculpture
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- NORTHWEST ULSTER by ROWAN, A 448 Source: Image Library Published:PENGUIN BOOKS (BUILDINGS OF IRELAND) 1979
- A COMPANION GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND 1837-1921 by WILLIAMS, JEREMY 356 Source: Image Library Published:IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS LTD 1994 DUBLIN
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 302 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
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