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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Trophy / Relic
- District
- Huntingdon
- Town
- Huntingdon
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 16th February 1991
Attended by: RT HON JOHN MAJOR MP
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 19128
Current location
Brampton Road
Huntingdon
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 3BQ
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 23531 71737
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Replica Russian gun (original removed for scrap in WW2). Replica is mounted on original stone slab.
- Inscription
- BALACLAVA/ INKERMAN/ SEBASTOPOL/ CRIMEA
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Plinth
- 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
- NB THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL WEAPON. MEMORIAL WAS VANDALIZED IMMEDIATELY AFTER UNVEILING BUT HAS SINCE BEEN RESTORED
- Costs
Site: £12,000
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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