Boer War Memorial In Victoria Park

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW ST HELEN'S ROAD 663-1/4/174 (East side) Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park

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Boer War memorial. c.1905. Red sandstone with bronze plaques. Obelisk type. Square base with square corner piers approx. 1 metre high, slightly tapered and the sides carved in narrow panels with floral patterns in Art Nouveau style. Between the piers on the east side the base has a bronze panel with raised lettering: "TO THE MEMORY OF BRAVE / MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT / FOR THEIR COUNTRY THIS /COLUMN HAS BEEN ERECTED / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION". The square pedestal to the obelisk has a similar plaque above this, headed with the words: SERGT. MAJOR NUNNERLY OF THE 17TH LANCERS ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED. DIED NOVEMBER 22ND 1905" (commemorating a survivor from the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, who became a draper in Ormskirk); and the name and details of one Boer War casualty below this. The west side has a similar plaque with the details of two other Boer War casualties.

Listing NGR: SD4165807951

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 2 February 2017.