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In Bury Art Museum, Greater Manchester.

An (incorrect) information card inside the cabinet reads: - "This large, two-handled, lidded, hall-marked silver cup, on an ebonised base, decorated with embossed & engraved feathers on the cup base & lid, with the County Borough coat of arms and a dedicatory inscription engraved on the front is a memorial to all those members of the Lancashire Fusilier Volunteer Battalion who lost their lives during the Boer War. All the names of the dead from the 3 companies are on 3 silver plaques around the ebonised base. The cup is displayed in a purpose-built mahogany case with lion's paw feet. It was presented to Bury Art Museum in 1902 by Henry Whitehead, owner of a local cotton-bleaching company."

The names are actually of those who served in the battalion.




FIRST SERVICE COMPANY

Lieut. James Milnes,
Sergt. George Hearne,
Pte. George E. Worthington,
" Thomas R. C. Wallace,
" Richard G. Sharples,
" David Butterworth,
" William Johnson,
" Alfred H. Peacock,
" Frank Smith,
" John J. Bundock,

Pte. H. Brand,
Corpl. Samuel Jackson,
Pte. Richard Collinge,
" John Collinge,
" Harry Fox,
" John Morris,
" Ernest Thornton,
" Frank Wolfenden,
" Albert Spencer,
" Edwin Whittaker,

Bugler Joseph Crowley,
Pte. Joseph Hoyle,
" John Lawson,
L. Copl. Richard J. Rushton,
Pte. Robert Taylor,
" James Heaton,
" John Holt,
" Samuel Hargreaves,
L. Corpl. William Read,
Corpl. Harry Smith,

Pte. William T. Clayton,
" Daniel Hibbert,
" Walter E. Barlow,
" John Byrne,
" James Chadwick,
" Thomas Darcey,
L. Copl. Joseph Humphreys,
Pte. John Whittaker,
" John Kay,
L. Copl. William C. Ratledge,

LEFT BURY , 17.4.00.

Lieut. Frederick A. Woodcock,
Sergt. Michael Maloney,
Bugler Henry Hope,
Pte. William Wood,
" Joseph Green,
Corpl. James William Green,
Pte. John Robinson,
" John Taylor.


SECOND SERVICE COMPANY

Lieut. Walter Webb,
" Edgar Frederick Wrigley,
Serg. John Henry Boardman,
Pte. William Nuttall,
" Ernest Hardman,
" Charles Ford,
" Herbert Hill,
" John Russell,
" Tom Bleakeley,
" Wright Prestwich,
" Walter Chadwick,
" Arthur Watson,
" Frederick Hindle,
Bugler William Brooks,
Pte. James Judge,

Pte. Samuel Dennerley,
" Charles Orrell,
" Walter Ingham,
" Richard Ashworth,
" George Collinge,
" John Hogg,
" Harry Bazley,
" William Wood,
" John William Tattersfield,
" Joseph Whitby,
" Frederick Dawber,
" James Sheard,
" Henry Hammond,
" John Harling,
" Ernest Heywood,
" James Booth,

Pte. Henry Rugg,
" William Hoyle,
" John Standring,
" John Harris,
" John Beech,
" Holmes Burgon,
" Samuel Rhodes,
" Charles Holt,
Corpl. Elliott Howarth,
Pte. John Orrell,
" Thomas Smith,
" William Riley,
" Joseph Dixon,
" Richard Howarth,
" Thomas Carr.


THIRD SERVICE COMPANY

Lieut. Adam C. Bealey,
2nd William Wike,
Sergt. Ins. Frederick J. Speakman,
Corpl. Robert Barker,
" Edward Gilbert,
" Ernest Simister,
Buglr. Charles Taylor,
Pte. William E. Hoyle,
" William Hannon,
" Sydney A. Olive,
" Charles Smith,
" Frederick Birchall,
" Richard A. Hoyle,
" Joseph Morton,

Pte. James Kay,
" Frank Smith,
" George Walsh,
" Arthur Brand,
" John Taylor,
" John L. Wolstenholme,
" Edward Hyland,
" Robert Holt,
" Thomas Jones,
" William Murray,
" John Preston,
" John Henry Taylor,
" Albert Spencer,
" Thomas Duckworth,

Pte. William Hamer
" Richard Holt,
" John Orrell,
" James Rafferty,
" William Holleran,
" Moses Gregory,
" Philip Moggeridge,
" Francis Shanley,
" Walter E. Barlow,
" Richard Catterall,
" Mathew Clancey,
" Thomas Hemmings,
" Herbert Richardson,
" George Randle,

Pte. Frank Taylor,
" James Chadwick,
" Frederick Currie,
" John Chadwick,
" Robert Evans,
" Arthur Johnson,
" James Kenyon,
" Richard Lomax,
" Jonathan Openshaw,
" James Yates,
" Jack Parkinson,
" William Mabb,
Corpl. Harry Thornley,
Pte. Arthur Hickie,

Pte. George H. Mason,
" John Fitzpatrick,
" Wilmot Hargreaves,
" Albert Watson,
" John Walmsley,
" Harry Carruthers,
" William Henry Jones,
" Henry Brand,
" Harry Holt,
" Joel Jones,
Corpl. Percy Barton,
Pte. Robert Taylor,
" Sylvanus Watkins,
" Lawrence Butterworth.

Rear view of the cup.



The photo in this link shows a figure on top of the cabinet. www.gmmg.org.uk/our-connected-history/item/the-whitehead-cup/