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Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Reading
Town
Reading
County
Berkshire
Country
England
Commemoration
Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
9122

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Current location

St Mary's Church
St Marys Butts
Reading
Reading
Berkshire
England

OS Grid Ref: SU 719 733
Denomination: Church of England

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Inscription
1ST BATTALION THE ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT EGYPT/ SOUDAN/ NILE (NOT EXACT WORDING)
Inscription legible?
yes
Commemorations
  • Egypt and the Sudan (1882-1899)
    Total names on memorial: 0
    Served and returned: Undefined
    Died: Undefined
    Exact count: no
    Information shown: Undefined
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brass
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • Some sort of controversy over the colours of the 1st Battalion. Reading Standard - Friday 22 May 1891 I have received a letter from "A Friend of the old 49th" respecting the comments I made last week anent the recent laying up of the colours of that regiment. My correspondent says:— " l am glad you have called attention to the separation of the Soudan colours of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment from the Soudan Monument, put up by the battalion, not long since, in St. Mary's Parish Church. The blunder is all the more inexplicable because the monument records one of the most brilliant episodes in the history of that distinguished regiment. Their gallant stand in the Zereba was said to have saved the British army on that eventful Sunday, and it won the distinction of purple facings for the whole Berkshire Regiment. The colours under which they fought and died ought certainly to hang over the monument on which the names of the heroes of the Soudan are recorded. Justice to their memory demands it."

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