Walsall Cenotaph

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Reference WMO/228420

Address:

Bridgeman Street

Walsall

England

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In 2017, WMT gave a grant towards this war memorial. As it has been a number of years since the grant was given, we would like an up-to-date condition survey and photographs to be added to this war memorial record. Can you help?

Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Three-stepped base surmounted by a cenotaph set within raised ornamental garden with stone walls at the perimeter. Whole is surmounted by a sarcohagus with draped flag. Names on the sides of the plinth below the cornice and above the band is an anchor carved within a wreath and enclosed by swag.
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6 O'CLOCK FACE: COUNTY BOROUGH OF WALSALL/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVE AND GRATITUDE TO/ THE MEN OF THE BOROUGH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR 1914-1918/ THIS CENOTAPH HAS BEEN ERECTED/ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ 1ST OCTOBER 1921 FACE FACING THE BRIDGE: THEY WERE NUMBERED AMONGST THOSE WHO, AT THE/ CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO/ THEM ENDURED HARNESS, FACED DANGER, AND FINALLY/ PASSED OUT OF THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH OF DUTY AND/ SELF-SACRIFICE, GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS/ MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM./ LET THOSE THAT COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES/ BE NOT FORGOTTTEN

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Grade II (England)

1343033

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