Crewe Reservists in the Boer War

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Reference WMO/139511

Address:

Queen's Park

Victoria Avenue

Crewe

CW2 7SB

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Marble
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: Bronze figure of a soldier in the uniform of the Boer War period on a granite column with a limestone base and flanked by two limestone lions. Bronze plaques on each of the four sides list the names of the men of the 2nd Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Volunteers) commemorated by the monument. (HE listing entry says marble and sandstone.). It is in the Centre of the park, in front of the site of the pavilion which burnt down caused by arson attack in 1970.
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1899. 1902 /(Names)

Grade II (England)

1138682

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