FREETOWN MEMORIAL
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Location Information
The Freetown Memorial is located outside the Secretariat Building in the centre of Freetown.
Historical InformationThe West Africans who died whilst serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force in West Africa, whose graves are not known, or are unmaintainable, are commemorated by name on memorials in the countries of their enlistment: men of Sierra Leone at Freetown, Nigerians at Lagos, men of Ghana at Accra, and of Gambia at Bathurst (now Banjul).
The Freetown Memorial commemorates 1,109 First World War casualties and 247 from the Second World War.
Shot at Dawn
2479 Private Fatoma, West African Regiment, executed for cowardice 19th July 1915.
The Freetown Memorial is located outside the Secretariat Building in the centre of Freetown.
Historical InformationThe West Africans who died whilst serving with the Royal West African Frontier Force in West Africa, whose graves are not known, or are unmaintainable, are commemorated by name on memorials in the countries of their enlistment: men of Sierra Leone at Freetown, Nigerians at Lagos, men of Ghana at Accra, and of Gambia at Bathurst (now Banjul).
The Freetown Memorial commemorates 1,109 First World War casualties and 247 from the Second World War.
Shot at Dawn
2479 Private Fatoma, West African Regiment, executed for cowardice 19th July 1915.
Picture used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
