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djb wrote: That's fantastic. Never seen one of those before.

Do you know why the memorial is located there?

Good question! I've found this interesting blog post, which has photos of ABW horse troughs at Burstow, Surrey, and Melbourne, Australia. wordsonstone.wordpress.com/tag/martock/
But nothing on why Martock in particular has one.

Here's another piece that mentions Martock's horse trough. hildakean.com/?p=1122

Another ABW horse trough, this one in Winchester, Hampshire. www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/node/192414

Thanks Berenice - a new horse trough.

I had recorded four in the UK:
Watford
Bristol
Burstow
WInchester

These were given by private individuals, I suspect the same is true of the Martock one.

Berenice

I continue to be impressed by the Boer War memorials that you have manged to find. My thanks to you again.

This war evidently made a great impression on the people of Britain, probably not surprisingly in view of the large number of casualties from all corners of the country. Was there a similar proliferation of memorials in Ireland?

Regards
Brett

Brett Hendey wrote: This war evidently made a great impression on the people of Britain, probably not surprisingly in view of the large number of casualties from all corners of the country. Was there a similar proliferation of memorials in Ireland?
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Morning Brett

Yes, but on a smaller scale and no horse troughs - yet. The south being Catholic there are far less memorials in churches than in Protestant north and England, Scotland and Wales. Then there is the Irish independence angle to consider, for some the Irish men fighting in the British Army were traitors. The proliferation of memorials is also linked to wealth, I don't know for sure but I am certain that in Ireland at this period the general mass of the Irish population was less well off than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales.

Regards
Meurig

Brett Hendey wrote: Berenice

I continue to be impressed by the Boer War memorials that you have manged to find. My thanks to you again.

This war evidently made a great impression on the people of Britain, probably not surprisingly in view of the large number of casualties from all corners of the country. Was there a similar proliferation of memorials in Ireland?

Regards
Brett

Another good question! Apparently, there are at least 29 ABW memorials of various description in Northern Ireland, and I also found a list of Irish ABW memorials www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials?warId=13 The major cities and towns in the Republic of Ireland have one or two.
Thanks for the question, Brett. I'd not thought about the Republic before, and now I have somewhere else to go visit!