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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Carlisle
- Town
- Carlisle
- County
- Cumbria
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Regimental Memorials, VC or GC Recipients, Crimean War (1853-1856), Colonial India, First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 8 Nov 1998
Attended by:
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 66975
Current location
The Border Regiment Chapel monument area
west wall
Carlisle Cathedral
The Abbey
Carlisle
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA3 8TZ
England
OS Grid Ref: NY3990155957
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Slate Plaque within a sandstone surround
- Inscription
- COLONELS OF/THE KING’S OWN ROYAL BORDER REGIMENT/ Major General Valentine Blomfield CB DSO 1959-1961/ Lieutenant General Sir Richard Anderson KCB CBE DSO 1961-1971/ General Sir William Scotter KCB CBE MC ADC Gen 1971-1981/ Major General David Miller CB CBE MC 1981-1988/ Major General Robert Hodges CB OBE 1988-2004/ Brigadier Michael Griffiths 2004-2006 THE BORDER REGIMENT/VICTORIA CROSS MEMORIAL/ Pte Thomas Beach VC 55th Foot Inkerman 1854/ Pte William Cuffey VC DCM 34th Foot Sevastapol 1855/ Pte John Sims VC 34th Foot Sevastapol 1855/ Maj Frederick Elton VC 55th Foot Sevastapol 1855/ Pte George Richardson VC 34th Foot Sinhara Chat 1859/ Pte Abraham Acton VC 2nd Border Rouges Bancs 1914/ Pte James Smith VC 2nd Border Rouges Bancs 1914/ Sgt Edward Mott VC DCM 1st Border Le Transloy 1917/ Sgt Charles Spackman VC Mascoing 1917/ Lt Col James-Forbes Robertson/VC DS & Bar MC Vieux Bequin 1918/ In Memory of/Major General D E Miller CB CBE MC
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abraham, Acton
Anderson, Richard
Beach, Thomas
Blomfield, Valentine
Cuffey, William
Elton, Frederick
Griffiths, Michael
Hodges, Robert
Miller, David
Mott, Edward
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 6
Served and returned: 6
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Christian Names, Decorations, dates when regimental colonel
Order of information: Date Order - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 10
Served and returned: 0
Died: 10
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forenames, battalion, decorations
Order of information: By date & place of VC action - Crimean War (1853-1856)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Christian Names, Battalion
Order of information: Undefined - Colonial India
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 1
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Christian Names, Battalion
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, Christian Names, Battalion
Order of information: Undefined
- Regimental Memorials
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: height 880, width 740
Materials: Slate - Frame
Measurements: depth 110, height 1370, width 890
Materials: Sandstone
- 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
- Cumbria Magazine March 2016 pgs 54-58 for the Crimean War VC's
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