Monument Boerenoorlog Norwich

Dit monument herdenkt de inwoners van Norwich die hun leven hebben gegeven in de Tweede Boerenoorlog (1899-1902).

"Opgericht
door de
Provincie Norfolk & Stad Norwich
als eerbetoon aan de nagedachtenis van de
dappere Norfolk mannen
die stierven voor hun land tijdens de oorlog
in Zuid-Afrika 1899-1902".

Er staan 306 namen op van Prince Alfred's Mounted Infantry, Imperial Light Horse, Royal Garrison Artillery, Norfolk Regiment, Norfolk Volunteer Company. Imperial Yeomanry, Gordon Highlanders, Cape Pioneers, 1st Royal Dragoon Guards, Thorneycroft Mounted Infantry, Gordon Highlanders, 8th Hussars, Royal Field Artillery, 7th Dragoon Guards, Suffolk Regiment, 20th Hussars, Bedfordshire Regiment, Army Service Corps, Manchester Regiment, 13th Hussars, 5th Dragoon Guards, Seaforth Highlanders, 18th Hussars, Royal Army Medical Corps, Kings Royal Rifles, Connaught Rangers, Baden Powell's Police, South African Constabulary, Coldstream Guards, 19th Hussars, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, Cape Cycle Corps, 16th Lancers, Rifle Brigade, 19th Hussars, 5th Lancers, 4th Hussars, Grenadier Guards, Northumberland Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Lincolnshire Regiment, Royal Navy, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, Royal Engineers, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Brabant's Horse, Scottish Horse, York & Lancaster Regiment, 7th Hussars, Marshall's Horse, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Dragoon Guards, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 6th Dragoon Guards, Devonshire Regiment, 21st Lancers, Royal Scots, Yorkshire Light Infantry, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, Kimberley Town Guard, 15th Hussars en Leicestershire Regiment.

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Gebruikte bron(nen)

• Tekst: Fedor de Vries
• Foto's: Anthony (Sharky) Ward