World War I Memorial - Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps - Hamilton, Bermuda

Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Monument

Hamilton, Bermuda

N 32° 17.741 W 064° 47.076

Short Description: 

A monument honoring the soldiers of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who died during World War I is located in Victoria Park, Hamilton, Bermuda.

Long Description:

A 15' high brownstone obelisk located in the center of four 2' high brownstone obelisks and surrounded by chains has two bronze plaques with a list the members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps who died in The Great War. A third side has a Maltese cross medal within a wreath.

The plaques are inscribed:

TO THE 

GLORIOUS MEMORY

OF THE MEMBERS

OF THE BERMUDA

VOLUNTEER RIFLE 

CORPS

WHO FELL 

IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

ADCOCK C.C.

ARNOLD W.H.

BAKER H.J.

BRIDGES H.F.

CANNON J.A.

COOPER J.

DEAN S.G.

DOE A.E.

FARRELL P.J.

HARRIOTT B.M.

HOLLIS E.K.

KYME W.R.

MARSHALL F.G.

MARTIN W.C.

MILLET H.W.

NOBLE H.S.

O'CONNOR J.A.

OUTERBRIDGE B.W.

PAUSEY F.

PITCHER E.L.

PITMAN B.M.

PLATTEN A.R.

ROBERTSON C.G.

RYDER W.G.

SHEPPARD A.L.

SMITH K.N.

SMITH D.G.

STOLLARD G.

TATEM P.A.

TITE W.J.

TRIMINGHAM W.G.

TRIMINGHAM J.L.

TUCKER ST. G.M.

TUCKER G.F.

TUCKER E.E.

TURINI B.L.

WADSON S.P.

WATINGTON H.J.

WHITE W.A.

WHITECROSS H.C.

THEY GAVE THE MOST

THAT MAN CAN GIVE

LIFE ITSELF. FOR GOD

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

ERECTED BY THE CORPS

Soldiers from the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps were the first colonial troops to arrive in France when 87 soldiers joining the Lincolnshire Regiment on June 15, 1915. A second group of 38 members of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps also joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in October, 1916.