Tirah Memorial

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The Tirah Memorial is a war memorial erected in Oxford, England in 1900. The first war memorial to be erected in Oxford, it was designed by Inigo Thomas, and dedicated to soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry who died during the Tirah Campaign and the North West Frontier Campaign in India in 1897-8.^[1]

The monument is a 25 foot high obelisk, with foundations 20 foot deep, and was erected in Bonn Square, the former graveyard of St Peter-le-Bailey church. In the digging of the foundations, human remains were found, which were re-interred at the nearby Osney cemetery.^[1]