Ludlow

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Reference WMO/156620

Address:

Castle Street

Ludlow

SY8 1AT

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Animal Figure
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
About the memorial: The memorial was commissioned by the local Royal British Legion branch. Sculptor Walenty Pytel (1941), Polish-born contemporary artist based in the United Kingdom, recognised as a leading metal sculptor of birds and beasts (Wikipedia – Website). Stylised cross with squat upper arms, symbolising suffering and reconciliation, with sword and wreath carved in relief at centre. At the top are two doves taking flight. Below them, on a small elongated platform formed by the tail feathers of one of the birds, is sculpture of a pigeon nesting. Dedicatory inscription on a plaque lower down the shaft of the cross concludes, "at the end of a millennium of conflict, looks forward to a millennium of peace on two sides around the base are set slate slabs bearing the names of deaths during WW1, WW11 and Korean Wars
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Dedicatory inscription on a plaque lower down the shaft of the cross concludes, "at the end of a millennium of conflict, looks forward to a millennium of peace LEST WE/ FORGET on the corner slab beneath the cross - When you go home/tell them of us/and say/for your tomorrow/we gave our today

1914-1918 Alexander Adams/Thomas H Adams/Charles Angell/Edward V Austin/Bertram Baker/William Barlow/John H Baron/William Y Baron/Edward Bate/George A N Baxter/Charles Beddoes/Frederick E Bennett/Thomas Biggs/Thomas Bissell/John E Blakeway/Cyril E Bodenham/Henry Bradley/Joseph Bradley/George Brocklehurst/Arthur Brown/George A Brown/William F Carter/William T E Charles/Alfred W Curtis/Charles J Davies/Edward R Davies/Tom Dean/John A Didlick/H Victor Diggle/Reginald H L Dodgson/Albert Dyke/George Edwards/Joseph Edwards/Thomas Edwards/Norman Elliott/Alfred Evans/Herbert E Evans/John Evans/Frank Evison/Ernest G Fewtrell/Norman S Gilkes/Roydon Goodall/Daniel Gough/William T Gough/James H Green/John Griffiths/Reginald T Griffiths/William Griffiths/George Halford/William H Halford/Arthur W J Haynes/George Hayward/John Higgins/William E Hill/Ernest Holloway/Matthias Hughes/Walter S Hughes/William Hughes/Henry Humphreys/Albert Jones/Albert H Jones/Arnold W Jones/Penry Jones/Roland Jones/Arthur T Jukes/William Jukes/Harry Kennett/George Lello/Ernest A Lewis/George B Lewis/Ernest H Lloyd/Charles R Longley//Charles Marsh/John Masset/Thomas Matthews/William H Millichip/William R Minton/John E Morgan/George Morris/James Morriss/William T Morris/James Morse/Benjamin Nicholas/William Nicholas/Samuel F Nott/James B Oakes/John H Owen/Francis W Packer/Harold Paget/Sydney A Parker/Thomas Parr/Ernest Pearce/Henry F Penny/William Perkins/Henry S Pilson/James W Postans/Ernest Potts/Richard Potts/George H Ponds/Leonard Pounds/Charles Powell/John T Powles/Frederick Preece/George B Price/George H Price/Henry E Price/Samuel Price/Harry Pritchard/William H Ralphs/George E Randles/Charles Reynolds/Walter Reynolds/Charles Ricketts/Alfred E Rogers/William E Rogers/George H Sadler/Charles F Sale/Alfred Saunders/Henry Saunders/Edward Sheldon/Percy H Spear/Stanley E Stead/Samuel Shuker/Henry Thomas/Stanley J Tillett/Charles Tristram/John E Venables/James Wait/Harold T M Watkins/Charles H Woodhouse/Thomas H Woodhouse/Arthur Williams/George H Williams/Walter W Brown 1939-1945 George Badland/Thomas B Barnett/William H Beavans/Richard Bradley/Thomas H Burgoyne/Stanley Childs/Herbert E Cresswell/Robert A Eakin/Leonard G Edwards/George T L Edwards/Jack French/John H Green/Herbert S Griffiths/John Griffiths/Jefferey F P Harper/Arthur J Howard/Donald Howard/Albert Jennings/George A Jones/Sidney C Marston/Cecil C Meredith/Percy P Oakes/William T Pinches/Thomas E Pitt/Douglas G Preece/Wilfred H Price/Harry W Price/Herbert B Price/George W Pritchard/Oscar T Pryce/Arthur J Read/Henry G Rhodes/Francis J Smallman/Oliver C Thomas/William F Thompson/John H Wall/Harold Watkins/William T Watkins/H Laurie Whitbread/John L Woodhouse/Stanley Wright At foot of 2nd plaque Korea 1950-1953 Gordon R Minton/Dennis Pitt

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