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The plaque is in St Swithun's Church.

Lieutenant Arthur Beckett Hughes, Royal Navy. H.M.S. Philomel

Sergeant Charles Hodgkiss, 1st Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment

Sergeant James Porter, 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusilers

Sergeant William Onslow Sutton, 2nd Bn. Shropshire Regiment

Trooper Frederick Barker, 12th Royal Lancers. Died of enteric fever at Kronstad, Orange River Colony, May 8th 1900

Private George Porter, 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment

Trooper William Gee, Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry

Trooper Phillimore Hussey, Northumberland Imperial Yeomanry

Trooper Tom Jackson, Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry

Trooper Charles William Kemp, 75th Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). Drowned in the River Reit near Jacobsdal, Dec. 28th 1900

Trooper William Wood, Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry

Private Thomas Gee, Volunteer Bn. Shropshire Light Infantry

Private Harry Jones, Volunteer Bn. Shropshire Light Infantry. Killed in railway accident near Fredrickstad, July 30th 1900

Berenice,

Your work to photograph these monuments and also type their names so that they are searchable is very valuable and much appreciated.

Many thanks
David

Very nice memorial.

Barker 12th Lancers is interesting - his place of death is incorrect on this memorial and on his individual memorial in Cirencester put up by the regiment they got his date of death wrong.

He died May 8 at Bloemfontein (verified by Watt In Memoriam and The Times on May 12 1900 - incidentally this is the date on the memorial in Cirencester).

Can't immediately pin down Phillimore Hussey - appears to be Finnemore Hussey - but his papers aren't on-line to prove this.

Regards
Meurig

Got him!

Phillimore Hussey enlisted as Finemore Hussey - real name Horace Finnimore (sic) Hussey,but known as "Phillimore" see sites.google.com/site/cheswardinemanor/hussey .

He was married in this church in 1927 aged about 47 and fathered six children.

Not many men could have married under a plaque commemorating their war service.

Regards
Meurig

Hi Bernice,
I echo David's comments, thank you for posting these, they are becoming a valuable catalogue.

Cheers
Paul

Some information on Mr Hussey.....He was Christened Florance ..married as Phillimore...referenced in his Father's Will as "Florance Phillimore Hussey" was a Farmer's son..born at Sowdley Hall farm after his period in uniform he lived the rest of his life with his wife .on Doley farm , nr Cheswardine.which has stayed in his family until this year.
Those of his family I met were lovely people. Photo of him in uniform and in later life also his obituary from the newspaper.