Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Darlington
- Town
- Darlington
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Maker
- LEEDS SLATE AND QUARRY COMPANY (Designer)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 05th August 1905
Attended by: FIELD MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL ROBERTS VC KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE - Dedicated
Date: 05th August 1905
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 41820
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Current location
Near east bank of the River Skerne
St Cuthberts Church
Bride Row
Darlington
Darlington
Durham
DL1 1PB
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 29134 14470
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Boer War Tommy in Khaki Drill uniform lunging with rifle, bayonet fixed. Rough hewn plinth carved to resemble a rocky kopje, on worked two stepped base. Inscription on front face plaque, names on each side.
- Inscription
- THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY 5,576 SUBSCRIBERS AS A TRIBUTE/ TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF DARLINGTON WHO VOLUNTEERED/ AND SERVED THE EMPIRE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899 - 1902/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 100
Served and returned: 89
Died: 11
Exact count: no
Information shown: regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Peterhead - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Shap - Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Plinth
- Listing information
- South African War Memorial within St Cuthbert's Churchyard
- 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
- Darlington Boer War
- WMO ID: 224370
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 23-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Bayonet broken off in the 1950s by swinging children
- Costs
Site: £500
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 49 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- Local Publication/Booklet 'Darlington & Stockton News' 7 April 1904;12 Nov. 1904;13 May 1905;6 August 1955.
- Local Publication/Booklet 'Northern Echo' 5 August 1905.
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Local Publication/Booklet 'Darlington in old picture postcards' pp.55-6.
- CDD40.56
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