The RAMC Memorial at

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is a monument commemorating the men of the

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who lost their lives during the

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of 1899 to 1902. It is a Grade II listed structure.RAMC Memorial, Aldershot on the British Listed Buildings website
/ref> Located at the top of the town's Gun Hill and placed near to the former Cambridge Military Hospital, the memorial was dedicated by

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on Empire Day - 24 May 1905, and this is commemorated by a small plaque lying before the steps of the memorial.

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, ''The Story of Aldershot: a History of the Civil and Military Towns'' Gale & Polden, Aldershot (1951) p326] The memorial commemorates the 314 officers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who died in the

The RAMC Memorial - Aldershot Civic Society website
/ref> - namely, one Colonel, two Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonels of the Militia Staff Corps, six Majors, five Captains, five Lieutenants, two

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s, two Sergeant-Majors, nine Staff Sergeants, nine Sergeants, five Lance Sergeants, eighteen Corporals, five Lance-Corporals and 243 Privates. The granite and bronze memorial is in the form of a three stepped semi-circular base with a wall behind. In the centre is a mounted obelisk with a sculptural group placed at the base. The 14 bronze name plaques placed on the front of the wall record the names of the 314 soldiers who lost their lives in the conflict. The sculpted group by the

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sculptor Sir William Goscombe John RA is formed by two men of the

(RAMC) tending to a wounded man lying on a stretcher in a

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composition. The wounded soldier lies in the arms of a RAMC Orderly while his left leg is bandaged by a Medical Officer. The inscription reads: "Erected by the Officers, Warrant and Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in memory of their comrades of the Corps." The architectural setting is by the Scottish

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architect and landscape designer

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. The sculpted group was cast by A.B. Burton at the

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. The memorial has been a Grade II listed structure since 2010.Royal Army Medical Corps Boer War Memorial at Aldershot in Hampshire
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*[http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_objectrecord_postsearch.htm&_IXFIRST_=32491&_IXMAXHITS_=1&m=quick_sform&tc1=i&tc2=e&s=oY8iDYKxlkF Royal Army Medical Corps Memorial, Aldershot Sense of Place - South East website]
Photographs of the R.A.M.C. Boer War Memorial at Aldershot
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