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A brass memorial tablet, on the north wall of St. Edward's church, to those who died fighting in the Boer War.1   The memorial reads:
A brass memorial tablet, on the north wall of St. Edward's church, to those who died fighting in the Boer War.1   The memorial reads:
THE ESSEX REGIMENT
1ST. VOLUNTEER BATTN.
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
PRIVATES
ARTHUR HENRY BROWN. ALFRED COURTNEY.
WILLIAM OSMUND HYETT. ARTHUR ACKLAND PERKINS.
"A" & "B" COMPANIES 1ST. V.B. ESSEX REGT.
WHO DIED SERVING THEIR
QUEEN, KING & COUNTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
DURING THE BOER WAR, 1900-1902.
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED IN LOVING REMEMBERANCE
BY THE PRESENT & PAST MEMBERS OF THEIR COMPANIES, 1902.

1 Photographed March 2002.
 

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