Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Monument - Hamilton, Bermuda - World War I Memorials and Monuments on Waymarking.com

A 15' high brownstone obelisk located in the center of four 2' high brownstone obelisks and surrounded by chains has two bronze plaques with a list the members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who died in The Great War. A third side has a Maltese cross medal within a wreath.

The plaques are inscribed:

TO THE
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE MEMBERS
OF THE BERMUDA
VOLUNTEER RIFLE
CORPS
WHO FELL
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

ADCOCK C.C.
ARNOLD W.H.
BAKER H.J.
BRIDGES H.F.
CANNON J.A.
COOPER J.
DEAN S.G.
DOE A.E.
FARRELL P.J.
HARRIOTT B.M.
HOLLIS E.K.
KYME W.R.
MARSHALL F.G.
MARTIN W.C.
MILLET H.W.
NOBLE H.S.
O'CONNOR J.A.
OUTERBRIDGE B.W.

PAUSEY F.
PITCHER E.L.
PITMAN B.M.
PLATTEN A.R.
ROBERTSON C.G.
RYDER W.G.
SHEPPARD A.L.
SMITH K.N.
SMITH D.G.
STOLLARD G.
TATEM P.A.
TITE W.J.
TRIMINGHAM W.G.
TRIMINGHAM J.L.
TUCKER ST. G.M.
TUCKER G.F.
TUCKER E.E.
TURINI B.L.
WADSON S.P.
WATINGTON H.J.
WHITE W.A.
WHITECROSS H.C.

THEY GAVE THE MOST
THAT MAN CAN GIVE
LIFE ITSELF. FOR GOD
FOR KING AND COUNTRY

ERECTED BY THE CORPS

Soldiers from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps were the first colonial troops to arrive in France when 87 soldiers joining the Lincolnshire Regiment on June 15, 1915. A second group of 38 members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps also joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in October, 1916.

Private or Public Monument?: Government Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Geographic Region where the Monument is located: North America Website for this Monument: [Web Link] Physical Address of Monument: Victoria Park Hamilton, Bermuda Rate this waymark: Photo or photos will be uploaded.: yes Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: Not listed

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