Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Epping Forest
- Town
- Waltham Abbey
- County
- Essex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 14 December 1902
Attended by: Gen Sir Ian Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 2236
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Current location
Holy Cross & St Laurence Church
Highbridge Street
Waltham Abbey
Epping Forest
Essex
EN9 1DJ
England
OS Grid Ref: TL 38100 00700
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Plain white castellino marble inscription tablet mounted onto a nowy-headed red alabaster pattress. Incised inscription. Tablet flanked by two figures. Two female figures flank the tablet, both depicted in attitudes of grief and both holding wreaths. Laurel wreath carved in relief above the inscription tablet with initials ' RR' within it and crown above
- Inscription
- R R / PRO PATRIA / IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS, N.C.O.S & MEN OF / THE XXTH BATTALION IMPERIAL YEOMANRY (ROUGH RIDERS) / WHO DIED IN SOUTH AFRICA 1900 - 1902. / (30 NAMES) / This Tablet is erected by their Comrades
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Barningham, D C
Blake, John S
Bromfield, C G T
Bywater, James A
Chinnock, Walter W
Clark, Percy
Cugley, Walter J
Dearle, Arthur E
Edwards, William H
Galt, Frank I
See details for all 30 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 30
Served and returned: 0
Died: 30
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, initials, surname
Order of information: Rank, surname
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: depth 160mm, height 1360mm, width 1400mm
Materials: Marble - White - Backboard
Measurements: depth 160mm, height 1360mm, width 1400mm
Materials: Alabaster
- Tablet
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
Details: The comrades of the men commemorated - Responsibility
- Parochial Church Council
- Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
- 'For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902' by Gildea, James 57 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London 'Waltham Abbey Parish Church Guide 2nd edition' compiled by A.V.G. Clavell (M.A. vicar & rural Dean of Chigwell)
- www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/141327/ . Accessed 24 March 2022.
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