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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vn. JUNE 7, 1913.

Chelmsford. On New Year's Day, 1910, Major-General T. E. Stephenson, C.B., un- veiled an obelisk erected to the memory of the men of the Essex Regiment who fell in the Boer War. The monument was presented to the town by Sir Carne Rasche. formerly M.P. for S.E. and Mid-Essex.

London. In Highbury Fields is a memo rial to 110 Islington men who died during this war. On a pedestal of Portland stone is a bronze figure representing Glory, holding in her right hand a figure of Victory, and in her left a laurel wreath. The names of the men are inscribed on bronze tablets affixed ^o the pedestal. The designer was Mr. ^Bertram Mackennel. It was unveiled 15 July, 1905.

On 20 July, 1910, the Duke of Connaught unveiled the memorial in the Mall, St. .James's Park, to the 67 officers and 1,700 men of the Royal Artillery who fell in the "South African War. In the centre of a platform protected by a low wall and piers is a pedestal surmounted by a bronze group Tepresenting a winged figure controlling a war-horse. The stonework is ornamented with bronze bas-reliefs representing various grades of Artillery. The bronze plates containing the names of the fallen soldiers are inserted in the floor of the platform. 'The memorial was designed by Mr. W. R. Colton, A.R.A.

Fuller particulars are desired respecting South African War memorials at Ayr, Cardiff, Carmarthen, Clevedon, Clifton Col* lege, Dewsbury, Halifax, Hull, Plymouth, "Woolwich, &c.

VARIOUS.

Edinburgh. On the Castle Esplanade a ross commemorates men of the 72nd High- landers who fell in the Afghan Campaign, 1878-80.

Birmingham. Between the Town Hall and the Council House stands the fountain erected to commemorate men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. It is surmounted by a bronze antelope, the regimental badge. On a shield at the back are recorded the names, and on a similar shield in front is inscribed :

In memory of | all ranks of the | Royal Warwickshire | Regiment | who fell in battle, I died of wounds or sickness, | in the course of the | Soudan Campaign | 1898. | Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. | This Fountain is erected by subscription | amongst all ranks | past and pre- sent | of the Reg 1.

Pennicuik, near Edinburgh, At Valley- field, where upwards of 5,000 French

prisoners of war were confined, Mr. Alex- ander Cowan, the owner of the property, caused to be erected in 1830 a memorial to those who died during their exile. It is a massive tomb -like structure, and on the front is a tablet inscribed as follows :

The mortal remains of 309 Prisoners of War who died

in this neighbourhood, between 21st March, 1811, and

26th July, 1814,

are interred near this spot.

Grata Quies Patrise : Sed et

Omnis Terra Sepulchrum.

Certain inhabitants of this

parish, desiring to remember

that all men are brethren,

caused this

monument to be erected in the year 1830.

On the opposite side is a similar inscription in French.

Sir Walter Scott, who displayed a warm interest in the erection of the memorial, suggested the Latin quotation used in the inscription. He also offered the following couplet as a translation, but, as it did not sufficiently convey the sentiment of the original, it was not used : Rest in fair France 'twas vain for them to crave ; A cold and hostile clime affords their grave.

I desire to obtain fuller particulars of the following memorials : Black Watch, Aber- feldy and Edinburgh ; Soudan, Birming- ham ; Egyptian War, Brighton ; Afghan, Edinburgh ; Scottish Borderers, Edinburgh ; Liverpool Regiment, Liverpool ; 9th Perth Rifles, Perth ; Zulu, Reading ; York and Lancaster, Sheffield ; Afghan, Woolwich, &c.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.)

JOHN CLARKE, SCHOOLMASTER or HULL. (See 3 S. ii. 511-12.) The statement in the * D.N.B.' and elsewhere that John

larke of Hull became master of the Grammar School at Gloucester should be corrected. In ' The Hull Grammar School,' by R. W.

orlass (1878), it is stated (p. 10) that Clarke " died in 1734 at Gloucester, where he then held the post of master to the Grammar School." Carlisle's ' Endowed Grammar Schools of England,' ii. 833, mentions that he was appointed to Hull in 1720, and that he removed to Gloucester, where he died. His epitaph is printed in ' N. & Q.' at the reference given.

Within the past twelve months I have been permitted to check all the appointments