West View Park Second Boer War Memorial - Halifax, UK
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dtrebilc
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This impressive memorial with a soldier in battledress atop a tall base was raised in West View Park in 1904 and stands 10 metres tall.
Waymark Code: WMV1R7
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/09/2017
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The memorial was paid for by public subscription and the committee in charge of its erection suggested locations in a number of different public parks to the Halifax Markets and Parks Committee.
This site in West View Park was chosen. It is in a former quarry and the memorial is at the highest part of the park looking towards the Pennine Hills.
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There used to be a number of bronze plaques on the memorial, but after one was stolen the remainder were removed for safekeeping.
Imperial War Museum
website has the text from one of them.
THIS MEMORIAL
WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION
IN HONOUR OF THE
GALLANT OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE PARISH OF HALIFAX
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
DURING THE
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
1899-1902.
The memorial was unveiled on 7 November 1904 and was
attended by General Sir Leslie Rundle GCB, GCVO, GCMG, DS0.
The arhitect of the memorial was William Wormold Longbottom and it was sculpted by
Benjamin Sheppard.