Memorial to S African War is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. Monument.

Memorial to S African War

WRENN ID: silent-keystone-moth
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Swansea
Country: Wales
Date first listed: 25 July 1994
Type: Monument
Source: Cadw listing

Description

Pink granite pedestal (on pale and dark grey granite step) with dark grey granite columns to angles, upper part of pedestal octagonal with bronze wreaths, and heraldic shield. White stone statue of soldier with bronze rifle protecting fallen comrade. Soldier said to have been posed for by Sgt O S Bird, PE teacher of Swansea Grammar School.

Inscriptions on pedestal record monument’s origins and names of those who fell ‘For that fair motherland which gave them birth nobly to dare, nobly to die’.

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