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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59838

djb Topic Author Offline Administrator Posts: 32596 Thank you received: 4953	Three minutes walk from St Ann's Square is the Cathedral which houses 3 memorials for the Boer War. All three are located in the West Porch, close to a very light entrance which made photography very difficult. Dr David Biggins Attachments:
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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59839

djb Topic Author Offline Administrator Posts: 32596 Thank you received: 4953	The monument to the right as you enter the porch is to U Battery, RHA. The scroll at the top of the memorial list 4 battles on the left but only 3 on the right. The final scroll is empty. Dr David Biggins Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: Elmarie, davidh
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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59840

djb Topic Author Offline Administrator Posts: 32596 Thank you received: 4953	The first monument to the left is to the 1st Dragoon Guards Dr David Biggins Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: Elmarie, davidh
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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59841

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The largest memorial is also the least legible and accessible

It is described on the Taleside website as:

Located in the West Porch, a very large brass plaque within a black frame commemorating the names of those men of all Manchester Regiment Battalions who died in the Boer War.

At the top of the frame is the line from Horace: Dulce et decorum es pro patria mori (It is sweet and comely to die for fatherland). Around the tablet is a border of rose leaves and in each corner is a rose. Beneath the arms of the city is the inscription: To the glory of God and in grateful commemoration of the following officers and men who fell in South Africa in 1899-1902, gallantly serving their Sovereign and country, this tablet is erected by public subscription.

Then are engraved the names of those who fell in the following order:

Manchester Regiment 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 5th Militia Battalion, 6th Militia Battalion and the six Volunteer Battalions who served with the 1st & 2nd Battalions.
Then follow the 7th Lancashire (Manchester) Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) and the 77th (Manchester) Company Imperial Yeomanry.

It is easiest to see from this perspective:

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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59842

djb Topic Author Offline Administrator Posts: 32596 Thank you received: 4953	None of the picture do it justice. Perhaps the names are recorded elsewhere too? Dr David Biggins Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: Elmarie, davidh
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Manchester Cathedral memorials 6 years 4 months ago #59844

djb Topic Author Offline Administrator Posts: 32596 Thank you received: 4953	There is one more memorial in the same porch but I am nit sure if it relates to the Boer War. It is to Colonel Henry Darlington VD, commanding officer of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Dr David Biggins Attachments: The following user(s) said Thank You: Elmarie
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