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Merseyside North West England St George's Place (L1) |
Liverpool Cenotaph |
Herbert Tyson Smith & Lional Bailey Budden
Singer / Morris Singer / William Morris (London) 1930 |
The Liverpool cenotaph consists of a 10.7 m long rectangular block of stone on a stone platform, with bronze, low-relief sculptures on the sides depicting marching troops and mourners. The panels are 9.4 m long. It was designed by Lionel Budden, with carving by Herbert Tyson Smith.
It was erected as a memorial to those who had fallen in the First World War. The dates of the Second World War were subsequently added.
West face:
 as unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live out of the north parts a great company and a mighty army A stream of marching troops in the uniforms of the various armed forces. |
East face:
 to the men of liverpool who fell in the great war and all who have fallen in conflict since and the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people. Mourners laying flowers and wreaths on a Stone of Remembrance, with rows of graves in a military cemetery behind them. |
On the shorter north and south faces are circular bronze shields with the coat of arms of Liverpool and festoons, and the dates of the two wars.
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