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War Memorial 1914-19

Stanley Nicholson Babb
1921

Description

Stone cenotaph with an urn with eternal flame at the top and with reliefs at front and back. The architect was Ernest Theakstone, the sculptor Stanley Nicholson Babb. It was unveiled 10 July 1921 by Capt. S.H. Ratcliffe, Senior Naval Officer in Yorkshire District.

"Victory crowning the fallen"	"The men that kept the seaway"

Names of the fallen of World War II were added later.

Inscription(s)

1914-1919
TO OVR MEN WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR FREEDOM
1939-1945

1914-1919
TO OVR MEN WHO
KEPT THE SEAWAY
1939-1945

Memorial - list of names

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Sculptor

Stanley Nicholson Babb (Plymouth 1873 - Brixham 1953), English sculptor (Mapping of Sculpture).

Sources & Information

United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials, UKNIWM.
Driffield Times - Saturday 16 July 1921 (British Newspaper Archive).
Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 9 July 1921 (British Newspaper Archive).

Locatie (N 54°5'3" - W 0°11'33") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbyh220; Photograph: 1 August 2019
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