County: South Yorkshire
Issued on: n/a
Date of presentation: 22/10/1903
Number issued: 4
Gold medals, to:
Mr J.SHAW (Honorary Secretary)
Presentation made by Mr C.W. Bartholomew, of Blakesely Hall, after the unveiling on the Wombwell Memorial, Wombwell Town Hall.
Wombwell’s Heroes.
A MEMORIAL TABLET TO THE LADS WHO WENT TO THE FRONT UNVEILED YESTERDAY.
The memorial tablet has been erected upon the Station Road side of Wombwell Town Hall. It is of white and grey marble, and is flanked by carved figures, representing the volunteer-man at the front. An obligation to tell the truth forbids one to say the figures are well-carved. It they in any way resembled the Wombwell volunteers, then Wombwell volunteers went to the front suffering terribly from gout. The memorial records the fact that some 45 men went out from Wombwell to South Africa, and that two Wombwell men died there in their country’s service.
The actual inscription upon the tablet runs: –
“This tablet is erected by the people of Wombwell, in appreciation of the loyalty and patriotism of their fellow-townsmen named below, who so nobly responded to the call to arms, for their Sovereign and Country, during the Boer War, 1899 to 1902”.
Then follow the names of the two Wombwell men who died in South Africa: J.T. TABOR, 2nd V.B. Y. and L. Regt., died at Newcastle. T. WILSON, King’s R.R., died at Ladysmith. The names of the 43 men who survived the campaign and have returned to Wombwell, were inscribed below.
……. Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell then, in a few well-chosen words, presented the tablet to the Urban District Council, on behalf of whom Mr W. Washington accepted the gift.
