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Wallasey, Wirral 4 years 6 months ago #72715

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In Central Park, Liscard, part of Wallsey, which was then in Cheshire, and is now in Merseyside.
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ERECTED TO THE MEMORY
OF THE
WALLASEY MEN
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899 - 1902,
AND ALSO IN RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICES OF
LOCAL MEN DURING THE CAMPAIGN.

CORPL. BERT ROWLANDS. 89TH I.Y. PTE. HAROLD WILSON. 89TH I.Y.
PTE. ALFRED J CARTWRIGHT. CHES. REGT. PTE. ROBERT THOS. OWEN. LPOOL REGT.
PTE. WILLIAM HUNTINGDON. R.E. PTE. HUGH SHAW . 1ST R.B. PTE. JAMES PRIESTLEY. NATAL M.P.
PTE. J. TORNEY. 1ST S. LANC. REGT. PTE. ARTHUR GATH. R.A.M.C. PTE. ERNEST VIPOND. R.W. FUS.
PTE. FRED CRIGHTON. 14TH HUSSARS.







The names are in five rows at the base of the pedestal.




A postcard which was sent to Namur, Belgium, in 1906.

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Wallasey, Wirral 4 years 6 months ago #72716

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I was only able to transcribe the names with the help of an older photo elsewhere online. There's no damage to the inscriptions, it just needs a bit of cleaning.
www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121254













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Yes, that does look very challenging to read but great detective work to identify the names, Berenice.
Dr David Biggins

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The linked warmemorialsonline page for this memorial comments "the statue was previously multi-coloured with gold and black but it is now universally white." The lettering may have been black, but I wonder which part of the statue was gold. Britannia's face has become badly weathered, and check out Roll of Honour's photograph, in which Britannia was holding a trident. This memorial is in very poor condition.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Cheshire/WallaseyBoerWar.html

Worth pointing out that other online sources - the Imperial War Museum, History of Wallasey, Roll of Honour - have transcribed the name of Private Gath, R.A.M.C., as "Cath." Maybe one did that, and the others simply copied the mistake. However, the roll of honour for The Wirral, in Birkenhead, has the name correct.
www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...-cheshire-merseyside
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