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Tirah Memorial

1900 establishments in EnglandBritish military memorials and cemeteriesBuildings and structures completed in 1900Grade II listed buildings in OxfordMonuments and memorials in Oxfordshire
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Bonn Square and war memorial geograph.org.uk 1321803
Bonn Square and war memorial geograph.org.uk 1321803

The Tirah Memorial is a war memorial in Bonn Square, Oxford, England. It commemorates soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry who died in 1897–98 on the Tirah Expedition and Punjab Frontier Campaign to suppress rebel tribes on the North West Frontier of British India.

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Tirah Memorial
Bonn Square, Oxford City Centre

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