Tirah Memorial
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.- Type: Obelisk
- Description: war memorial in Oxford, England
- Also known as: “Oxfordshire Light Infantry Memorial”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bonn Square and Jesus College.
Bonn Square
Square
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bonn Square in Oxford, England, is named after the German city of Bonn with which Oxford is twinned. It is close to the original west gate of the city of Oxford, where the Westgate Shopping Centre is now located.
Jesus College
University
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Jesus College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street. Jesus College is situated 840 feet northeast of Tirah Memorial.
Oxford Westgate Library
Library
Photo: Gordon Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxford Westgate Library is the main public library in the city of Oxford, England. It is the largest public lending library in Oxfordshire, as the far larger Bodleian Library predominantly operates only as a reference library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Grandpont.
Oxford
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Grandpont
Quarter
Grandpont is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
Tirah Memorial
- Categories: war memorial, memorial, and historic site
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.75174° or 51° 45′ 6″ northLongitude
-1.26° or 1° 15′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C3WQP2Q+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 322850769OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=obeliskWikidata ID
Q7809085
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