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No matter how many photos I took, with and without flash, I just couldn't get a sharp image. The memorial is placed on a staircase, perhaps the lettering has lost some of its sharpness after a century of being passed by and touched.



THIS TABLET IS HERE PLACED TO COMMEMORATE THE
PATRIOTIC DEVOTION OF THE UNDERMENTIONED "OLD BOYS"
WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN THE BOER WAR (1899-1902)

LIUEUTS. J.MATTHEWS & W.M.RHODES. SERGT. W.B.CLEEVES.
TROOPERS E.E.BENNETT, H.E.BENNETT, H.KENWAY
C.H.MATTHEWS, J.W.MERRYWEATHER, H.E.SPENCER &
W.WHEATCROFT.
SAPPER A.G.PAGETT & PRIVATE V.CLEEVES.
TROOPERS A.F.HOYLAND (KILLED IN ACTION) & C.N.WATKIN (DIED)

DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI



Lieutenant J. Matthews
Lieutenant Wilfred McTurk Rhodes Royal Field Artillery Died 28.6.1904 www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...-artillery-died-1904
8017 Sergeant Wilfred Birks Cleeves Volunteers, Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers [font color="3319e6"]Served as a Private in the Pretoria Civil Guard during WW1[/font]
36472 Trooper E. E. Bennett 50th (Hampshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry
1929 Trooper Henry E. Bennett 11th (Yorkshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry
24793 Trooper Harold Kenway 110th (Northumberland) Company Imperial Yeomanry
Trooper C. H. Matthews
12242 Trooper John White Merryweather 66th (Yorkshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry
12312 Trooper Horace Edward Spencer 66th (Yorkshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry
Trooper W. Wheatcroft - possibly 2026 Private Wilfred W. Wheatcroft 11th (Yorkshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry
8981 Sapper A. G. Pagett Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers
Private Vincent Cleeves King's Royal Rifle Corps
12228 Trooper Arthur Francis Hoyland 66th (Yorkshire) Company Imperial Yeomanry Killed in action, 4.7.1900
608 Trooper C. N. Watkin South African Constabulary Died of enteric fever, 15.1.1902

That is very well found, Berenice.

It is great that you have transcribed it too to make it accessible.