HMS Boadicea Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2016. Memorial.
HMS Boadicea Memorial
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pewter-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A commemorative monument to the fallen crew of HMS Boadicea during her campaign of 1879-82.
MATERIALS: pink granite and limestone with wrought iron railings.
DESCRIPTION: an obelisk and pedestal upon on a dressed granite plinth surrounded by low iron railings with stylised foliate enrichment. The four faces of the base have inscriptions in applied metal lettering. The principal face states ‘IN MEMORY OF THE / OFFICERS, SEAMEN, MARINES, KROOMEN OF / HMS BOADICEA / COMMODORE SIR FW RICHARDS, KCB / WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION OR DIED OF WOUNDS / DISEASE OR ACCIDENT DURING HER COMMISSION / ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE / AND WEST COAST OF AFRICA STATION / 1878 – 1882 / ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES’. The other three faces provide names of victims of the conflict and descriptions of their fates.
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, 16 June 2017.
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