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Boer War Memorial Plaque, Tynemouth

On the stairwell of what was once a church, now a shopping arcade in Front Street, Tynemouth

Boer War Memorial Plaque Tynemouth

Dunbar Boer War Memorial

This is situated on Queen’s Road and is dedicated to members of the Lothians and Berwick Yeomanry who fell in the South African War 1900-1.

This is the wording on the cartouche:-

You’ll note it ends, “Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori” – words made savagely ironic by Wilfred Owen as the result of a later war.

The reverse of the memorial commemorates the Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry who fell in the two World Wars:-

Two Worcester War Memorials

There are memorials to three wars just by Worcester Cathedral, on the town side.

The first I came to was the one for the South African War (the Second Boer War.)

Boer War Memorial, Worcester

Just a bit further on there is a memorial to both World Wars. This has no names on it. I assumed there is another memorial elsewhere in Worcester that does that. (A quick internet search suggests not, however, but there are numerous memorials in various churches etc.)

War Memorial outside Worcester Cathedral

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