St. Patrick's, COI, 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars

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St. Patrick's Cathedral, Church of Ireland - 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars

Location

South aisle of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Patrick Street. One of numerous war memorials in the cathedral.

Type

Marble Plaque.

Inscriptions & Imagery

Marble memorial edged with shamrock decorations. The top of the memorial features the 8th Hussars's regimental emblem, the Harp and Crown, with its motto, Pirstinae Virtutis Memores, surrounded by its official battle-honours: Laswaree, Hindostan, Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman Sevastopol, Central India, Afghanistan 1879-80, South Africa 1900-02.

The main inscription reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NCOS AND MEN OF THE VIIITH KINGS ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WAR 1914-1919.

And at the lower-part of the memorial:

ERECTED BY THEIR COMRADES.

The names are listed in two columns, both of which are ordered by rank and then surname.

Casualties

105 casualties listed with rank, initials and surname, ordered by rank then surname. Those with known Dublin links are listed here.

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