Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Addition to gravestone
- District
- Shrewsbury And Atcham
- Town
- Battlefield
- County
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 37897
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Current location
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH
Battlefield
Shrewsbury And Atcham
Shropshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 513 173
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- CROSS ON THREE STEPPED PLINTH
- Inscription
- IN/ LOVING MEMORY/ OF/ FRANCIS HENRY/ ONLY SURVIVING SON OF/ FREDERIC AND/ AGNES SARAH CHUBB/ WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION/ ON OCTOBER 13TH 1900/ AT CAROLINA, SOUTH AFRICA/ WHILE SERVING WITH THE 8TH HUSSARS/ AGED 20/ MAY HE REST IN PEACE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,relationships
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Cross
- 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
- Private
- Reference
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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