Memorial

Haileybury College, War Memorial Dining Hall, Cloister and Garden

Haileybury Memorial Tablets

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Current Location

On the College grounds, HAILEYBURY & IMPERIAL SERVICES COLLEGE, Hailey Lane, Hertford Heath, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, SG13 7NU, England

TL 35800 10700

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 32159
Description: 21 TABLETS
Inscription: (1ST PLAQUE) HAILEYBURIENSIS/QUI DE PATRIA BENE/MERUERINT/HAILEYBURIENSIS/HAUD INCRATI (19TH PLAQUE) UNITED SERVICES COLLEGE/IN MEMORY OF 146 OLD BOYS/WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN/CAMPAIGNS BETWEEN 1878 AND 1945/THEIR NAMES ARE INSCRIBED IN THE/ROLL OF HONOUR IN THE CHAPEL THE FIRST BEING/THAT OF LIEUT. W S WIDDICOMBE ADJUTANT 10TH/BOMBAY NATIVE INFANTRY. HE WAS ONE OF TWELVE/BOYS WHO WENT FROM HAILEYBURY TO WESTWARD HO!/WITH MR CORMELL PRICE, THE FIRST HEADMASTER OF THE UNITED SERVICES COLLEGE IN SEPTEMBER 1874/AND BECAME FIRST HEAD PREFECT./THE ROLL OF HONOUR INCLUDES THE NAMES/OF 22 BOYS WHO WERE AT WINDSOR IN JANUARY 1912/WHEN THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL WAS CHANGED TO/IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE/ (20TH PLAQUE) OLD BOYS OF THE/IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE/KILLED OR DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE/

Tablets

Height: 760MM

Width: 840MM

Made from: Marble

Condition: Good

For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James p.81 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAR MEMORIALS by KERNOT, C F p.149 Source: Image Library NIWM Published:ROBERTS AND NEWTON 1927 LONDON
Per Herbert Baker Society: Engineers, Oscar Faber Furniture: Robert Thomas "Mouseman" Sculptor: Charles Wheeler Wood and Stone Carver: Joseph Armitage