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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Belfast
- Town
- Belfast
- County
- Antrim
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Maker
- SYDNEY MARCH (Sculptor)
MESSRS ELKINGTON & CO LTD (Founder / Foundry) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 6th October 1905
Attended by: FIELD MARSHAL LORD GRENFELL GCB
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 43479
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Current location
CITY HALL
Donegal Square
Belfast
Belfast
Antrim
BT1 5GS
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- CITY HALL
Donegall Square
Belfast
Belfast
Antrim
Northern Ireland
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- CITY HALL
- Description
- STATUE OF A PRIVATE OF THE REGIMENT IN KHAKI UNIFORM, WITH TOPEE AND PUTTEES, WITH A RIFLE AND FIXED BAYONET AT THE READY. THE FIGURE STANDS ON A MASSIVE BOULDER, BELOW WHICH IS THE PLINTH, WHICH STANDS ON FOUR STEPS, AROUND THE TOP OF THE PLINTH IS A BELT OF BRONZE PANELS, WITH FIGURES AT EACH CORNER REPRESENTING WAR, VICTORY, DEATH AND FAME. ON THE FRONT PANEL IS A DESIGN OF A HARP AND SHAMROCK CROWNED WITH A WREATH OF LAUREL TOGETHER WITH THE MOTTO OF THE REGIMENT, "QUIS SEPARABIT".
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ROYAL IRISH RIFLES WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION, OR DIED OF WOUNDS OR DISEASE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902, THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED. (NAMES ON OTHER THREE PANELS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Angeloni, F
Baker, W J
Becker, C
Briggs, R
Burrell, J
Burton, L H
Caric, T
Chapman, E F
Cowan, E T
Dickson, W J
See details for all 65 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 132
Served and returned: 0
Died: 132
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plinth
Measurements: height 15 FT
Materials: Granite - Figure
Measurements: height 8 FT
Materials: Bronze
- Plinth
- Condition
- Royal Irish Rifles Boer War Memorial
- WMO ID: 153579
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 06-10-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James 298 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- A COMPANION GUIDE TO ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND 1837-1921 by WILLIAMS, JEREMY 22 Source: Image Library Published:IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS LTD 1994 DUBLIN
- CENTRAL BELFAST by PATTON, M 115 Source: Image Library
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