Boer War Memorial, Eamont Bridge

Heritage listing

Details The memorial is situated within the corner of a field at a road junction and occupies the outer bank of a scheduled prehistoric henge (1007903). The memorial takes the form of a Celtic Cross upon a rectangular pedestal, set upon a larger square, two-stepped base. The front face of the cross head is decorated with bosses in relief with knot and interlace ornament. The upper part of the shaft is similarly decorated and the lower part of the shaft has bronze relief portrait medallions of the two casualties portrayed in slouch hats. The inscription, on the front of the pedestal reads: AT THAT CRISIS/IN THE HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE/WHEN VOLUNTEERS WERE INVITED FOR/ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/THIS VILLAGE OF EAMONT BRIDGE SENT FOUR,/JOHN HINDSON, WILLIAM TODD, ARTHUR MARWICK/OF THE 24TH COY (WESTMORLAND AND CUMBERLAND)/IMPERIAL YEOMANRY, AND WILLIAM HINDSON, OF THE/VOLUNTEER COY OF THE BORDER REGIMENT/OF THESE/JOHN HINDSON AND WILLIAM TODD/WERE KILLED IN ACTION AT FABERS PUT/30TH MAY, 1900/THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ON THIS HISTORIC SITE GRANTED BY LORD BROUGHAM, AND VAUX 1901/DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI The inscription on the front of the stepped base reads: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ON THIS HISTORIC SITE GRANTED BY LORD BROUGHAM VAUX 1901/ DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI. The left return of the pedestal bears the inscription: SECOND WORLD WAR/1939-1945, with the names of the three Fallen and their regiments listed below. This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 2 February 2017.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.