Tirah Memorial
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The Tirah Memorial is a war memorial in Bonn Square, Oxford, England. It commemorates soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry who died in 1897–98 on the Tirah Expedition and Punjab Frontier Campaign[1] to suppress rebel tribes on the North West Frontier of British India.
History
The Tirah Memorial was unveiled in 1900, making it Oxford's first free-standing war memorial.[1]
The monument was designed by Inigo Thomas.[1] It is an obelisk Script error: No such module "convert". high, with foundations Script error: No such module "convert". deep.[1] It was erected in a public garden that had been the graveyard of St Peter-le-Bailey parish church[1] and is now Bonn Square. The digging of the memorial's foundations unearthed human remains, which were re-interred at Osney Cemetery Script error: No such module "convert". away.[1]
The Tirah Memorial is a Grade II listed building.[2]
Other Tirah memorials
Men of the Dorset Regiment who died during the Tirah Expedition are commemorated by a Tirah Memorial in Borough Gardens, Dorchester, Dorset, southern England.[3]
Men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers who died during the Tirah Expedition are commemorated on the memorial at North Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Men of the Royal Sussex Regiment who died during the Tirah Expedition are commemorated on a memorial at Eastbourne, East Sussex, southeast England.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Men of the Northamptonshire Regiment who died in the expedition are commemorated on a plaque on the exterior of All Saints' Church, Northampton.[4]
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