Gone, But Not Quite Forgotten

IN St Cuthbert's churchyard is a Boer War memorial, dedicated in 1905 by Earl Roberts, a winner of the Victoria Cross, who later led the British army in South Africa, where his son died winning a posthumous VC.

The gun's bayonet is missing - apparently broken off sometime in the 1950s by children swinging on it

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY 5,576 SUBSCRIBERS AS A TRIBUTE

TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN OF DARLINGTON WHO VOLUNTEERED

AND SERVED THE EMPIRE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899 - 1902
There are 100 names on the memorial, of whom 11 died on service.