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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Epping Forest
- Town
- Debden
- County
- Essex
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 18 June 1904
Attended by: LORD STANLEY
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 47901
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Current location
Access by prior arrangement only.
British Postal Museum and Archive Store
Unit 7
Imprimo Park
Lenthall Road
Debden
Epping Forest
Essex
IG10 3UF
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 44484 96249
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- General Post Office North Building
St Martins Le Grand
City
City Of London
Greater London
EC1 1LP
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 321 825
Denomination: Undefined - King Edward Building
King Edward Street
City
City Of London
Greater London
EC1A 1AA
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 321 825
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- General Post Office North Building
- Description
- BRONZE PLAQUE TOPPED WITH BROKEN PEDIMENT. ROUNDELS IN UPPER CORNERS CONTAINING THE ENTWINED INITIALS OF APOC. INITIALS ARE BOTH ROUNDELS, WHITE ON THE LEFT, RED ON THE RIGHT. IN CENTRE OF BROKEN PEDIMENT IS A WREATH ENCLOSING A CORPS FLAG.
- Inscription
- ARMY POST OFFICE CORPS/ DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI/ IN HONOUR AND REMEMBRANCE OF/ THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTY/ TO THEIR COUNTRY DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN OF 1889 - 1902/ (NAMES)/ ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Amery, T R
Baker, D
Bruns, F W
Caney, P
Cartlidge, F
Chamberlain, C H
Davey, G W P
Donoghue, D
Duncombe, J T
Feldwick, T
See details for all 32 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 32
Served and returned: 0
Died: 32
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment, home post office
Order of information: rank THEN surname
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 37.5 IN, width 34.5 IN
Materials: Bronze, Enamel
- Plaque
- 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
- Responsibility
- Postal Museum
- Reference
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James p.146 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- catalogue.postalmuseum.org/collections/getrecord/GB813_Mem5
- St Martin's-le-Grand: The Post Office Magazine v.14 pp.322-3 Published:Post Office 1890-1933 London
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