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Reference WMO/143207

Address:

Boscowan Street

Truro

TR1 2AF

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Afghanistan (2001 -)
  • Falklands Conflict (1982)
About the memorial: At the east end of Boscowan Street with the junction of Princes Street, in front of the Coinage Hall.Standing in the centre of the cobbled street, a bronze statue of a soldier, rifle in left hand and holding his helmet aloft in his right hand. Mounted on a granite plinth upon a two-tier base, each face surmounted by either a crest or wreath in bronze below which on each face is a vertical bronze panel listing the names of the fallen. The front face bears one list in alphabetical order of surname, whilst the remaining three faces contain a further list in alphabetical order running through the three faces. The lower tier of the front face bears the general commemoration for WW2, but without names. Below the WW1 names on the front face are two additional bronze plaques, one to Andrew Palmer who fell in the Falklands War of 1982, and one to Olaf Sean George Schmid, who fell in Afghanistan and was awarded the George Cross posthumously. Please be careful if studying this memorial, as it is in the middle of a very busy street.
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6 o'clock face: (Names)/ FALKLAND ISLANDS, 1982/ (Name) / AFGHANISTAN/[name]/IN PROUD MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF/ 1914 - 1919 & 1939 - 1945 Other faces: (Names)

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Grade II (England)

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