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Boer War Memorial

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This memorial is on the corner of George Street and High Street, next to All Saints Church Yard in Huntingdon.
The Huntingdon Boer War memorial was unveiled on 23rd October, 1903 by Lt. General Lord Grenfell.
Places of residence listed below were taken from the reports of the unveiling ceremony
in the 'Hunts Post' and 'Hunts County News' of 31st October, 1903.

Erected to the memory of the Huntingdonshire men who
died in the South African War 1899 – 1902

SOLDIER
REGIMENT
RESIDENCE

Samuel Norman

2nd Life Guards

St Neots

Arthur Ayres

5th Dragoon Guards

Huntingdon

Lionel Howard Gilliat

Lt. 16th Lancers. Died of enteric at Barberton. 23rd Sept. 1900. Aged 19. Born October 1880.

Abbots Ripton

Hon. Charles William Hugh Cavendish

2nd Lieutenant - 17th Lancers - Killed in action at Diamond Hill, near Pretoria. 11th June 1900. Aged 21. Son of Lord Chesham. Born Sept. 1878. Memorial in Northampton Cathedral - "To the Glory of God and in memory of Brave Men, inhabitants of this County and neighbourhood, who gave their lives for their Sovereign and Country during the War in South Africa 1899-1902, the Western Window of this Cathedral was filled with stained glass, AD 1903........ 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers, 2nd Lieut. The Hon. C.W.H. Cavendish ........"

Unknown

Henry Hardwick

19th Hussars

St Neots

William Goodlife

Imperial Yeomanry

Huntingdon

Mark Slade

Imperial Yeomanry

Huntingdon

James W Nunns

Royal Artillery 7th Batt. R.F.A.

Earith

Reuben Butler

Royal Engineers

St Ives

Arthur Hubbard

Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion

Ramsey

Simon Wells

Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion

Godmanchester

William Easton

Northumberland Fusiliers

Needingworth

John Ashpole

Bedfordshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Great Paxton

Arthur James Elmer

Bedfordshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Great Staughton

Benjamin Feary

Bedfordshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Woodhurst

James John Sandifer

Bedfordshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Godmanchester

Henry Flowers

4th Hunts. Volunteer Battalion

Ramsey

Arthur James Trolley

Welsh Reg.

Eynesbury

Thomas Hill

Northamptonshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Sawtry

Arthur Henry Jeffs

Northamptonshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Huntingdon

William Wayman

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1st Battalion Killed in action 31st October 1901. His story can be found on another page.

Offord Cluney

Isaac Slack

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Battalion

Bury

George Eli Brown

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Battalion

Huntingdon

George Saunders

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Battalion

Little Stukeley

Albert Henry Cooke

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion

St Ives

William Evans

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion

Great Staughton

Edward Holmes

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion

Somersham

George Smith

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion

Stanground

Alfred Wiggins

King’s Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion died from wounds received at Spion Kop.

Huntingdon

Arthur Strachan Way

Lt. 2nd Durham Light Infantry D.S.O. Killed in action at Tabaksberg 29th January 1901. Aged 24. Son of Rev. W.H. Bromley Way, late rector of Warboys, Hunts. Born 5th March 1876. He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and joined the 2nd. Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, at Poona, in January 1896. He served in South Africa from January 1900 to 29th January 1901 with the Mounted Infantry, and was killed in action on 29th January 1901. He was created a companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette, 27th September 1901): "Arthur Strachan Way, Lieut., Durham Light Infantry (deceased). In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa." The Insignia, Warrant and Statutes were sent to his father. His brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Bromley Way, Sherwood Foresters, writes of Lieutenant Way: "He went to South Africa with the Durham Light Infantry Company of the Burmah Mounted Infantry in January 1990; was mentioned for gallantry at Sanna's Post, and on subsequent occasions, and was killed in action 29th January 1901." Awarded DSO 1901 and QSA and 5 bars.

Warboys

John Ray

The Rifle Brigade 1st Battalion

Woodstone

Arthur George Hensman

The Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion. Arthur was the son of George and Sarah (nee Fisher) Hensman, married 1864 in Godmanchester. He was born at Sutton, Cambridgeshire and in 1881 he was living with his family in St Neots. Corporal 4438, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, died of enteric fever at Ladysmith, 18th February 1900. Buried Intombi Cemetery, Ladysmith, South Africa.

St Neots

Thomas James McCrow

Army Service Corps

St Ives

Edward Cowley

Army Medical Service

Grafham

Charles Langford

Army Medical Service

Yaxley

Charles Nixon

City Imperial Volunteers

Abbots Ripton

Daniel William Hopkins

Damantis Horse

Fenstanton

Arthur Ringrow

Kimberly Light Horse

Alconbury

A brass plaque in Huntingdon All Saints church commemorates the following who are also listed above.
William GOODLIFE

Imperial Yeomanry

Huntingdon

Mark SLADE

Imperial Yeomanry

Huntingdon

Arthur Henry JEFFS

Northamptonshire Reg. 2nd Battalion

Huntingdon

6 August 2002

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