Eamont Bridge Boer War

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Reference WMO/119569

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Eamont Bridge

Penrith

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Metal Copper
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: The memorial was erected to the four volunteers from the village who fought in the Boer War and records that two of them fell. It is located on the edge of a prehistoric henge known as Arthur's Round Table. Eamont Bridge memorial is a limestone wheel cross with Celtic carved design. Unusually the memorial also incorporates two bronze relief portraits. The designer was W Grant Stevenson of Edinburgh. WW2 names have been added. In 2012 the memorial was listed at grade II.
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AT THAT CRISIS/IN THE HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE/WHEN VOLUNTEERS WERE INVITED FOR/ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/THIS VILLAGE OF EAMONT BRIDGE SENT FOUR,/JOHN HINDSON, WILLIAM TODD, ARTHUR MARWICK/OF THE 24TH COY (WESTMORLAND AND CUMBERLAND)/IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, AND WILLIAM HINDSON, OF THE/VOLUNTEER COY OF THE BORDER REGIMENT/OF THESE/JOHN HINDSON AND WILLIAM TODD/WERE KILLED IN ACTION AT FABERS PUT/30TH MAY, 1900 WW2 1939-1945/CLARENCE SMITH/ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT/WILFRED WARWICK/KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS/THOMAS STANLEY POULSON/WARWICK/1ST AIRBOURNE DIVISION

BOER WAR-JOHN HINDSON, WILLIAM TODD, ARTHUR MARWICK/ AND WILLIAM HINDSON/OF THESE/JOHN HINDSON AND WILLIAM TODD/WERE KILLED WW2-/CLARENCE SMITH/ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT/WILFRED WARWICK/KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS/THOMAS STANLEY POULSON/WARWICK/1ST AIRBOURNE DIVISION

Grade II (England)

1412122

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