Boer War memorial in Highbury Fields
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Boer War memorial in Highbury Fields
Image: © Marathon Taken: 10 Dec 2014
The inscription on the memorial says "HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE WHO SINK TO REST, BY ALL THEIR COUNTRY'S WISHES BLESS'D." "IN HONOUR OF NINETY-EIGHT ISLINGTONIANS WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1903. ERECTED BY THEIR FELLOW-TOWNSMEN JULY, 1905." The memorial is in the south-eastern corner, nearest to Highbury & Islington station. For more about Highbury Fields see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4276407 For other examples of a Boer War memorial see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2915284 and https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6301105
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Image Location
Latitude
51.546841
Longitude
-0.103231