Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Dacorum
- Town
- Berkhamsted
- County
- Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 81353
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Current location
St Peter's Church
Church Lane
Berkhamsted
Dacorum
Hertfordshire
HP4 1BJ
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 99358 07755
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Cast bronze plaque mounted on a bright red alabaster backboard. Above the raised inscription is a battlefield scene depicting a horse-drawn ambulance, with a soldier steadying the horses as a stretcher is lifted into the rear. Behind the wagon a mounted soldier looks down at a soldier dressing a comrade's wounds.
- Inscription
- /THIS TABLET IS ERECTED/BY THE INHABITANTS OF BERKHAMSTED/AS A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF/GEORGE WILLIAM JOSEPH POCOCK/AND/ARCHIBALD ERNEST OSBORNE/PRIVATES IN THE BERKHAMSTED COMPANY/2ND (HERTS) V.B. BEDFORDSHIRE REGIMENT/WHO VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE/AND GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THE EMPIRE/IN THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902./
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Osborne, Archibald Ernest
Pocock, George William Joseph
See details for all 2 names - Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 2
Served and returned: 0
Died: 2
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Forenames, surname, regiment, war served.
Order of information: Undefined
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- 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
- Privates G W J Pocock and A E Osborne
- WMO ID: 261747
- Condition: Good [last updated on 01-11-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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