Tirah Memorial

The Tirah Memorial in Bonn Square, Oxford

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 ^[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 war memorial.^[1]

The monument was designed by Inigo Thomas.^[1] It is an obelisk 25 feet (7.6 m) high, with foundations 20 feet (6.1 m) 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 1.2 miles (2 km) away.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers who died during the Tirah Expedition are commemorated on the memorial at North Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.^{[citation needed]}

Men of the Royal Sussex Regiment who died during the Tirah Expedition are commemorated on a memorial at Eastbourne, East Sussex, southeast England.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

Further reading[]

• Smith, Martin (2011). General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, Soldier of the Queen Empress. ISBN 978-0-9570154-0-1.

Coordinates: 51°45′06″N 1°15′36″W / 51.7517°N 1.2600°W / 51.7517; -1.2600