Location
On Clarence Esplanade close to the Tourist Information Office East of the Royal Naval Memorial.
Description
This memorial is a Portland stone obelisk on a cornised plinth. It is very weathered making some of the inscriptions difficult to read.
Memorial
Plaque 1
Plaque 2
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Plaque 1
Plaque 2
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Inscriptions
Inscription (Front Plaque)
Inscription (Rear Plaque)
(Front)
ERECTED
IN MEMORY
OF THE BRAVE.
SEBASTOPOL
(Left)
SWEABORG
ALMA
(Back)
BALACLAVA
(Right)
KERTCH
INKERMANN
ERECTED
IN MEMORY
OF THE BRAVE.
SEBASTOPOL
(Left)
SWEABORG
ALMA
(Back)
BALACLAVA
(Right)
KERTCH
INKERMANN
Inscription (Front Plaque)
Erected in
memory of those brave
soldiers and sailors
who during the late war
with Russia died of their
wounds and are buried
in this garrison.
memory of those brave
soldiers and sailors
who during the late war
with Russia died of their
wounds and are buried
in this garrison.
Inscription (Rear Plaque)
Erected
by the
Debating Society
of Portsmouth and
by their fellow townsmen.
June 10th 1857
by the
Debating Society
of Portsmouth and
by their fellow townsmen.
June 10th 1857
Further Information
It is unfortunate that the persons who erected this memorial did not inscribe the names of the men to whom they were referring as there are no other records pertaining to them. It is likely that the men who died would have been buried in Highland Road Cemetery which opened the previous year.
