Wiltshire Regiments -South African War

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Reference WMO/100099

Address:

Salisbury Cathedral

The Close

Salisbury

SP1 2EJ

England

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Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Copper
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A sturdy, copper plaque with double columned sides, supporting a corniced pediment, each resting on a decorated block (with years 1900 & 1903) joined by a nowy bottomed bar with a central decorated block. This surrounds a polished copper frame with 5 sections divided by a bar and showing in the top section a dedication while those below have the battalion badge (in a crimson border) in relief in top LH corner and associated names on a blue, enamel background. The bottom section has an additional badge in bottom RH corner. All lettering in uppercase, raised, metallic lettering. On top of the frame is a roundel with an image in relief of an enthroned figure greeting a soldier (?) with dedicatory words on either side,
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There are five panels. The inscriptions in each panel read thus:Top panel: DEDICATED BY WILTSHIRE MEN/ TO THE MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS/ NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS/ AND MEN BELONGING TO THIS/ COUNTY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/ Second panel: 1st BATTALION IMPERIAL YEOMANRY/ CAPTAIN SIR J. FOWLER BART./ CAPTAIN W.W.J. CLARKE/ LIEUTENANT J. C. BROWNE/ LIEUTENANT M. HUSTINGS/ AND 44 NON-COMMISSIONED/ OFICERS AND MEN Third Panel: 2nd BATTALION WILTSHIRE REGIMENT/ MAJOR F. R. MACMULLEN/ CAPTAIN W. ATKINS/ CAPTAIN H.P. ROGERS/ LIEUTENANT L.O.F. MELLISH/ AND 126 NON-COMMISSIONED/ OFFICERS AND MEN Fourth panel: THIRD MILITIA BATTALION/ WILTSHIRE REGIMENT/ 13 NON-COMMISSIONED/ OFFICERS AND MEN Bottom panel: VOLUNTEER SERVICE COMPANIES/ OF THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT/ LIEUTENANT W. C. LUCE/ AND 12 NON-COMMISSIONED/ OFFICERS AND MEN

CAPTAIN SIR J. FOWLER BART. CAPTAIN W.W.J. CLARKE. LIEUTENANT J. C. BROWNE. LIEUTENANT M. HUSTINGS. MAJOR F. R. MACMULLEN. CAPTAIN W. ATKINS. CAPTAIN H.P. ROGERS. LIEUTENANT L.O.F. MELLISH. LIEUTENANT W. C. LUCE.

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