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In Southwark Cathedral, London; at the time the plaque was placed there, it wasn't a cathedral, being called St. Saviour's Collegiate Church.





Yesterday afternoon in St. Saviour's Collegiate Church, Southwark, Lord Methuen unveiled a memorial erected to the memory of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Salmond and former cadets (ten in number) of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, who fell in the South African War. Colonel Salmond belonged to the 3rd Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters), and for the benefit of London working boys raised the 1st Cadet Battalion of which he was its commanding officer for 13 years. He died on August 4, 1902, at Deelfontein, South Africa, of wounds received whilst commandant of Stormberg. The memorial, consisting of a tablet made of beaten brass in the shape of the Union Jack, is attached to the wall of the western side of the church. The Rev. the Hon. J. S. Northcote, M.A., the hon. Chaplain to the King, and chaplain of the corps, conducted the service, which was attended by 400 cadets, and a crowded congregation. Whilst a funeral march was played the clergy, Lord Methuen, Major-General Sir F. Maurice, K.C.B. (Hon. Colonel), Lieut.-Colonel Bennett, commanding the battalion, and the officers of the corps, proceeded to the tablet, which his Lordship unveiled. The "last post" was sounded by the buglers, and subsequently Lord Methuen addressed the congregation. He said he came there, and so did the officers around him, to pay their last mark of respect to Colonel Salmond, and also to the comrades who died in the late war - a war which showed that the chivalry of Englishmen had grown no less, and that humanity in warfare had increased. The reason he was asked to come was because some years ago he helped, in a small way, Colonel Salmond and those men who did God's work in the East End to form the beginning of the corps. Colonel Salmond, whatever he did, did it thoroughly, and he (Lord Methuen) knew no work so essential to the welfare of this Empire as that to which he was referring. It was the duty of every man and woman to help to maintain the Church Lads' Brigades, and these cadets' corps in the kingdom. It was to the youth and to the young men that they (the older men of the future) must look for the maintenance of this great Empire, and so long as they carried on their voluntary system it was the lads and young men who must put their shoulders to the wheel. Colonel Salmond's name would be cherished in the heart of the corps, but their respect would never exceed the love of those who were around him. He could only hope that their characters might all in some small respect be like that of Colonel Salmond. - An impressive service closed with the sounding of the reveille on the bugles, and the singing of the National Anthem.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday 1st February 1904

G W Pritchard
6511 Lance Corporal A R Rhodes 2nd (Queen's) Royal West Surrey Regiment Died of disease at sea, on S.S. Mohawk, on 16th February 1902
4855 Private A V Underwood 1st Welsh Regiment Died of disease at Middelburg, on 6th May 1901
5518 Drummer G. E. Yeeles 2nd (Queen's) Royal West Surrey Regiment Died of disease at Lindley, on 14th March 1902
4124 Private Harry J Daw 1st Royal Dragoons Killed at Uintje's Hoek, on 2nd February 1902
4186 Private H H Chilvers 1st Border Regiment Died of enteric at Pietermaritzburg, on 7th April 1900
13197 Private Percy Chatterton 52nd (Paget's Horse) Company Imperial Yeomanry Killed in action at Faber's Spruit, on 30th May 1900
25554 Sergeant W H Griffen Commander-in-Chief's Bodyguard Died of disease at Johannesburg, on 16th March 1901
Carpenter G H Weber Imperial Military Railways Died of disease at Johannesburg, on 22nd December 1901
5427 Private Harry Parker 1st Border Regiment Died of disease at Pretoria, on 2nd August 1900

G. E. Yeeles is named on the memorial plaque to the men of the 2nd Battalion The Queen's, which is in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, but A. R. Rhodes isn't.

Fantastic and very comprehensive research, Berenice. Many thanks.

Thanks, David. I had no idea that the plaque was there, I just happened to visit the cathedral.

Can anyone identify Corporal G. W. Pritchard? There is no Pritchard named on the Border Regiment memorial in Carlisle Cathedral. Chilvers and Parker are both on it.

3099 Cpl G W Pritchard, 1st Border Regiment is marked on the supplementary roll (WO100/186p347) as deceased. He is not listed in Steve Watt's In Memoriam.

I had a quick look to see what happened to Lt Col Salmond but could find no details. I will keep looking ..

djb wrote: I had a quick look to see what happened to Lt Col Salmond but could find no details. I will keep looking ..

Here he is, courtesy of OLD STUBBORN. www.angloboerwar.com/forum/5-medals-and-...-derbyshire-regiment

djb wrote: 3099 Cpl G W Pritchard, 1st Border Regiment is marked on the supplementary roll (WO100/186p347) as deceased. He is not listed in Steve Watt's In Memoriam.

Perhaps he died at sea, as with A. J. Rhodes, or after being invalided back to the UK.