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Current location
St John the Baptist Church
The Street
Bredgar
Swale
Kent
ME9 8EU
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 88001 60306
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Stone obelisk
- Inscription
- THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ASHLEY THOMAS SON OF GEORGE AND ROSEANNE GOATHAM WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION 22ND JANUARY 1879 AGED 24 IN THE BATTLE OF ISANDULA. (EXACT LINE SPACING UNKNOWN) THEY STOOD THEIR GROUND COOL AND BOLD/ IN THAT DISASTROUS DAY/ AND FOUGHT LIKE WARRIORS WE ARE TOLD/ TILL ALL WERE CUT AWAY/ IN MEMORY WE SHALL SACRED KEEP/ THE MEN THAT FELL THAT DAY/ THOUGH FAR IN ZULULAND THEY SLEEP/ THEIR SOULS HAVE SOARED AWAY/ UPON THE GOLDEN CROWD GAZING WITH EAGER BREATH/ HE FOUGHT AS ONE WHO FAIN WOULD DIE/ AND DYING CONQUERED DEATH.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Goatham, Ashley
See details - Commemorations
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,place of death,forename,manner of death,age of death,relationships
Order of information: surname,rank,forename,place of death,age of death,year died,manner of death,relationships
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Obelisk
- 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
- PTE A GOATHAM
- WMO ID: 75686
- Condition: Poor [last updated on 13-11-2015]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2004: THE MEMORIAL WAS RESTORED DUE TO PUBLIC SUPPORT AND DONATIONS. 2003: INSURANCE COMPANY HAS ADVISED THAT AS MEMORIAL IS LOOSE AND DANGEROUS IT SHOULD BE LAIN DOWN
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- War Memorials Trust WM1146 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=172
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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