Memorial

2nd Volunteer Battalion Manchester Regiment

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Manchester University OTC Hall, Boundary Lane, Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M15 6DD, England

SJ 84051 96875

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 3286
Description: Internal part of memorial is oval marble tablet mounted on red stone mount. Red stone mount has pediment at top which surmounts two stone columns either side of central marble tablet. External tablet is of white stone with names in six columns. Internal memorial has relief of laurel garland surrounding names, above which is the arms of the City of Manchester. In centre of pediment is the regimental badge of a sphinx
Inscription: Internal pediment: : 2ND V B THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE NCO'S AND MEN OF THE ABOVE BATTALION/ WHO FELL IN THE WAR IN/ SOUTH AFRICA/ 1899-1902/ (Names) External tablet: ALSO AS A RECORD OF THE PATRIOTISM OF THE OFFICERS, NCO'S AND MEN WHO TOOK PART IN THE CAMPAIGN

Tablet

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

The Manchester Genealogist (The Journal of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society) Volume 36 No. 2, 2000, pages 93-111 for a long, detailed article on the Manchester Regiment in the Boer war which names all who served)