Ormskirk Comrades

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Reference WMO/65280

Address:

Coronation Park

Park Road

Ormskirk

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Obelisk
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Stone tapered obelisk set on a three-stepped square base. On the face of the main obelisk is a relief of a palm branch and laurel wreath. Originally located outside the Comrades of the Great War Club on Southport Road, it was relocated to Coronation Park in October 2012. Two stones bearing the names from the original Comrades Rolls of Honour were added in 2016.
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To our comrades / who fell / in the Great Wars / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / The blood of heroes / is the seed of freedom. / This monuemt is erected by / the comrades of the Great War / Ormskirk and District branch / (Left stone) Ormskirk Comrades - Roll of Honour / They went with songs to the battle, they were young / Straight of limb, true to eye, steady aglow / They were staunch to the end against odds uncountered / They fell with thier faces to the foe / (Right stone) Ormskirk Comrades - Roll of Honour / They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn / At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them / A record of their honour and of our gratitude

Grade II (England)

1445419

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