Penzance WWI

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Reference WMO/114005

Address:

Battery Road

Penzance

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 Granite
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Standing on the top of the sea wall above Battery Point, off Battery Road.A tall granite obelisk, upon a lidded square plinth which sits upon a three-tier base, the whole enclosed by a low wall surmounted by a meatl fence. The seaward (south) face of the plinth bears a slate tablet bearing the general commemoration to those men of Penzance who gave their lives in WW1. On the west and east faces slate tablets list the names of a total of 211 men who lost their lives in WW1, listed alphabetically, preceded just by their initials. No ranks, units or dates of death are listed. The landward (north) face of the plinth is adorned with a wreath of laurels, integral to the plinth.
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North Side: FOR GOD/ PRO PATRIA South Side: FOR HONOUR/ REMEMBER/ IN HONOUR AND GRATITUDE/ THOSE BRAVE MEN OF PENZANCE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO/ THEIR COUNTRY'S CAUSE AND/ FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ OF 1914 - 1919 West Side: FOR KING/ (Names) East Side: FOR COUNTRY/ (Names)

Grade II (England)

1393855

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