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Boer War Memorial Norwich

This memorial commemorates the residents of Norwich who gave their lives in the Anglo-Boer War (or South African War) (1899-1902).

"Erected
by the
County of Norfolk & City of Norwich
as a tribute to the memory of the
gallant Norfolk men
who died for their Country during the war
in South Africa A.D. 1899-1902"

There are 306 names inscribed from Prince Alfred's Mounted Infantry, Imperial Light Horse, Royal Garrison Artillery, Norfolk Regiment, Norfolk Volunteer Company. Imperial Yeomanry, Gordon Highlanders, Cape Pioneers, 1st Royal Dragoon Guards, Thorneycroft Mounted Infantry, Gordon Highlanders, 8th Hussars, Royal Field Artillery, 7th Dragoon Guards, Suffolk Regiment, 20th Hussars, Bedfordshire Regiment, Army Service Corps, Manchester Regiment, 13th Hussars, 5th Dragoon Guards, Seaforth Highlanders, 18th Hussars, Royal Army Medical Corps, Kings Royal Rifles, Connaught Rangers, Baden Powell's Police, South African Constabulary, Coldstream Guards, 19th Hussars, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Cape Cycle Corps, 16th Lancers, Rifle Brigade,19th Hussars, 5th Lancers, 4th Hussars, Grenadier Guards, Northumberland Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Lincolnshire Regiment, Royal Navy, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, Royal Engineers, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Brabant's Horse, Scottish Horse, York & Lancaster Regiment, 7th Hussars, Marshall's Horse, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Dragoon Guards, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 6th Dragoon Guards, Devonshire Regiment, 21st Lancers, Royal Scots, Yorkshire Light Infantry, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, Kimberley Town Guard, 15th Hussars and Leicestershire Regiment.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries
  • Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward