Corporal William Henry Cross

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Reference WMO/272623

Address:

St Mary's Church

12 Castle Street

Reading

RG1 7RD

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: Memorial to 6147 Lance Corporal William Henry Cross, 58th (Berkshire) Company, 15th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. Volunteered for service with the Imperial yeomanry for service in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War 1899-1902. He was killed in action at Bethlehem, Orange Free State on 6/7 Jul 1900. He is buried in Bethlehem cemetery no gravestone), Northern Cape, South Africa. He is also commemorated He is also commemorated on the Berkshire Yeomanry War Memorial outside Forbury Gardens, opposite The Crown Court, The Forbury, Reading, Berkshire (see https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/216841/).
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Erected by the County of Berkshire in memory of Corporal William Henry Cross, 58th Company Imperial Yeomanry, aged 21 years, who was killed in action at Bethlehem, South Africa on 7th July 1900.

William Henry Cross

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