Belfast Boer War Memorial - City Hall, Belfast, UK
N 54° 35.789 W 005° 55.733
30U E 310795 N 6053833
This Boer War memorial is located in the grounds of City Hall in Belfast. The memorial is to the east of City Hall adjacent to the Titanic memorial.
Waymark Code: WM11E5M
Location: Ulster, Ireland
Date Posted: 10/06/2019
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A plaque attached to the memorial reads:
In memory of the officers,
non-commissioned officers
and men of the Royal Irish
Rifles who were killed in action
or died of wounds or disease in
the South African War 1899-1902,
This monument is dedicated.
The Department for Communities website tells us about the monument:
Naturalistic bronze memorial statue of c.1905 by Sydney March, situated on the East side of the City Hall. A formal granite base of four steps carries a battered plinth capped with arch-topped rectangular bronze plaques on each elevation. At each corner between the bronze plaques stand smaller figures of angels, two armed with swords,one with a trumpet and one mourning. Standing on a roughly-hewn granite boulder is a bronze statue of a soldier in topee and puttees with bayonet at the ready. The front plaque carries a Hibernian harp, the other sides record the names of members of the Royal Irish Rifles killed in the Boer War. A subsidiary tablet on the W face records names from associated regiments, the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment and 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment (1793-1881) and the Royal Ulster Rifles (1921-1968). Approximately 5.5m high. The memorial is enclosed by modern iron railings. Setting The memorial is surrounded by modern railings and set on grass lawns.