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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Tameside
- Town
- Stalybridge
- County
- Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 55928
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Current location
In cellar
Stalybridge Library
Trinity Street
Stalybridge
Tameside
Greater Manchester
SK15 2BN
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 96378 98505
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Stalybridge Drill Hall
Castle Hill St
Stalybridge
Tameside
Greater Manchester
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- Stalybridge Drill Hall
- Description
- Two identical square stone tablets. (Exact description unknown)
- Inscription
- ROLL OF HONOUR OF THE MEMBERS OF THE STALYBRIDGE AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVED IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH THE 2nd VOLUNTEER BATTALION, CHESHIRE REGIMENT/ (Names) (Exact line spacing unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: height 1000mm, width 1000mm
Materials: Stone
- Tablets
- 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
- Stalybridge
- WMO ID: 253509
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 05-07-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 1998: Tablets offered to Cheshire Regimental Museum (until 1974 reorganisation of county boundries Stalybridge in Cheshire, hence Cheshire Regiment) and accepted. However tablets could not be moved with resources available because of weight. Museum still wants tablets and Library holding them only until possible to move them to Regimental Museum.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- Tameside Libary Service.
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