Memorial

Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry Boer War / Lothians and Border Horse, WW1 and WW2

Dunbar - Boer War

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Current Location

Facing the road on grassed area near the Church, Lothians Boer War Memorial, Queen's Road, Dunbar, East Lothian, Lothian, EH42 1JX, Scotland

NT 68173 78631

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Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 5648
Description: Obelisk on plinth and three stepped base surrounded by low chain fence. Garland on all four faces. Raised inscriptions and names.
Inscription: 6 o'clock (roadside) obelisk face: THE LOTHIANS and BERWICKSHIRE / IMPERIAL YEOMANRY // 6 o'clock (roadside) plinth face: THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF THOSE MEM- / BERS OF THE 19TH COMPANY and / OF THE LOTHIANS and BERWICK- / SHIRE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY / WHO FELL IN SOUTH AFRICA / DURING THE WAR 1900-1 / THEY BRAVELY and WILLINGLY / GAVE THEIR LIVES AT THE / CALL OF DUTY FOR THEIR / QUEEN and COUNTRY : and THEIR SORROWING COMRADES and / FRIENDS DESIRE THROUGHOUT / ALL TIME TO COMMEMORATE / THEIR SPLENDID DEVOTION / DULCE ET DECORUM / EST PRO PATRIA MORI. // 9 and 3 o'clock plinth faces: (11 NAMES) // 12 o'clock (lay-by side) plinth face: TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE / MEMBERS OF THE LOTHIANS / AND BORDER HORSE / YEOMANRY WHO FELL / IN THE TWO WARS / 1914-1918 AND 1939-1945 / THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED / ON THE ROLLS OF HONOUR / IN THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL / WAR MEMORIAL / EDINBURGH CASTLE

War: Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Number Commemorated: 11
Died: 11
Information shown: Company, regiment, rank, forenames or forename initials, surname, (1x manner of death with date), month and year of death, place of death
Order of names: Rank