THE centenary of the return of North Yorkshire soldiers from the Boer War has been marked with a wreath-laying ceremony in York.
Members of the Friends of the Green Howards Museum, based in Richmond, commemorated 100 years since the return of the regiment's surviving
men by laying a wreath on the regiment's South African war memorial on the roundabout close to Skeldergate Bridge in York.
The granite obelisk, which was unveiled with great ceremony on May 25, 1904, and was restored by the City of York Council in 2000, bears the names of the 184 men of the Regiment who died in the Boer War.
Sixty-seven were killed in action or died from their wounds, and 117 died from disease.
During their visit to York, the Friends of the Green Howards Museum were given a guided tour of the regimental chapels of the West Yorkshire Regiment, the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment by Philip Banbury, a former Green Howards major, who studied history and art at the University of York.
They also visited the Museum of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment and the Royal
Dragoon Guards.
To find out more about the Green Howards, visit the website at www.greenhowards.org.uk
Updated: 12:01 Wednesday, August 28, 2002
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