Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Waverley
- Town
- Godalming
- County
- Surrey
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61270
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Current location
In the cloisters
Charterhouse School
Charterhouse Road
Godalming
Waverley
Surrey
GU7 2DX
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 96388 45063
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- A pair of brass plaques, set in a stone border with decorative Gothic pediment and school coat of arms at centre lower edge. The upper plaque carries the Latin commemoration, the lower the names. Separate Latin carved inscriptions on the frame above the upper and between the plaques. The whole is wall mounted.
- Inscription
- Upper frame - DEO DANTE DEDI (Translation - 'I gave God Dante' Upper Plaque - HANC PORTICUM DEDICAVERUNT/ CARTHUSIANI SUORUM SEMPER/ MEMORES UT FRATRUM IN/ AFRICA MERIDIONALI MILITIA/ FUNCTORUM TUM SOSPITUM/ TUM VULNERIBUS AUT TABLE/ CONFECTORUM VIRTUS AC/ FAMA POSTERIS TRADERETUR/ MDCCCCIII (Translation - 'THEY WILL DEDICATE THIS PORCH/ THE CARTHUSIANS WILL ALWAYS/ REMEMBER AS BROTHERS IN/ THE SOUTHERN AFRICA MILITARY/ THE SERVANTS AND THE Wounded/ AND THE Wounded OR THE TABLE/ THE VIRTUE OF THE FINISHERS AND/ THE FAME WILL BE TRANSMITTED TO POSTERITY/ 1903' Between the plaques - MORTUI DESIDERANTUR Lower Plaque - (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 35
Served and returned: 0
Died: 35
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials
Order of information: Surname
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- 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 - Reference
- The Times 4/12 March 1951
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James p199 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- Charterhouse School, charterhousewarmemorial.org.uk/authenticated/Browse.aspx?BrowseID=20&tableName=ta_memorialchapel, accessed 22nd February, 2024
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