Private Eli James Merritt

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Reference WMO/272651

Address:

Holy Trinity Church

Marlston Road

Hermitage

Thatcham

RG18 9ST

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 6193 Private Eli James Merritt, 58th (Berkshire) Company, 15th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. Volunteered for service with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. Died of disease in the military hospital, Lindley, Orange Free State. He is also commemorated on the Berkshire Yeomanry Boer War memorial outside Forbury Gardens, opposite The Crown Court, The Forbury, Reading, Berkshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/216841).
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Erected by the County of Berkshitre in memory of Private Eli James Merritt, 58th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, aged 23 years, who died of enteric fever at Lindley, South Africa on 25th June 1900.

Eli James Merritt

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