Roll of Honour - Northumberland - Bellingham Boer War

Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

BELLINGHAM BOER WAR MEMORIAL

Boer War Detailed Information
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2006

This Boer War memorial was originally in the cross roads at the centrer of the village but became a traffic hazard and was moved to Manchester Square outside the Rose and Crown Public House. in the 1950's. The memorial is a statue of a Fusilier in full South African kit holding a rifle. He is set on a stone plinth within a canopied setting with four pillars. There is a polished panel on the front, probably granite, bearing the names and inscriptions and a further panel with additional names offset. There was originally a fountain with a light atop the memorial but this has now been removed. There are 33 names with the group (e.g. Yeomanry, Volunteers), surname and initials. The memorial itself was erected around 1903 and re-erected when moved in the 1950s. For ease of reading the names have been sorted into alphabetical order here.

ERECTED
IN HONOUR OF THE FOLLOWING LOCAL MEMBERS OF
YEOMANRY AND VOLUNTEERS WHO FOGUHT IN THE
BOER WAR 1900-1-2.

ARMSTRONG	R	Volunteers - No further information currently available
BATY	A G	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
BATY	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
BELL	M	Volunteers - No further information currently available
BOLTON	R	Volunteers - possibly Private 4727, 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Wounded 13th December 1900 at Nooitgedacht.
BROWN	E	Volunteers - No further information currently available
BROWN	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
CARRIGAN	W	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
COWAN	A	Volunteers - No further information currently available
COWAN	W	Volunteers - No further information currently available
COWAN	W G	Volunteers - No further information currently available
DAVY	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
DIXON	J G	Yeomanry - posssibly Private 870, 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Prisoner of war 13th December 1900 at Nooitgedacht, released 15 December.
DODD	T S	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
FENWICK	J	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
FORSTER	G	Volunteers - No further information currently available
FORSYTH	N	Volunteers - No further information currently available
GILGORY	C J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
GREY	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
HEDLEY	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
HILL	J	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
KIRK	M	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
MATTHEWS	D	Volunteers - No further information currently available
MOFFATT	A	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
PHILIPSON	G	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
PIGG	C	Volunteers - No further information currently available
ROBSON	R	Volunteers - No further information currently available
ROE	C F	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
SHORT	W	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
SISTERSON	R	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
SMITH	J	Yeomanry - No further information currently available
TELFORD	A	Volunteers - No further information currently available
THOMPSON	J	Volunteers - No further information currently available
THOMPSON	J R	Volunteers - No further information currently available

Last updated 9 September, 2015

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