Memorial plan for Oswestry’s forgotten soldiers
Thursday 20th October 2011, 6:30AM BST.
Moves have begun to build a memorial to the Oswestry men who served in some of Britain’s most significant battles.
Researchers have found a number of men served their country in both the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars – but no memorial was ever installed in the town to mark their sacrifice.
Members of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee have written to town councillors outlining the memorial plan and the town council will discuss it on Monday.
Paul Ridgley, from the association, said the town has memorials for those who died in the two world wars and there are memorials in Cae Glas Park remembering soldiers of the Royal Artillery and those who worked for the Cambrian Railway.
There is also a memorial to those who died in the South African War at the turn of the 19th century but Mr Ridgley said apart from one gravestone at Whittington, the area’s contribution to the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars has gone unmarked.
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