Liverpool Drummer Boy

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Reference WMO/132242

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National Museum of Wales

Cathays Park

Cardiff

CF10 3NP

Wales

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Status: Unknown
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Conflicts:
  • Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
About the memorial: This is a sculpture by local man Goscombe John and is a replica of that on the South African War Memorial in Liverpool. The museum also holds a painted plaster model for the sculpture.The sculptor described The figure is of a drummer boy at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 with a musket, banners and canon behind. Sir Goscombe John had commented that the boy “seated on a battered earthwork and shouting to his comrades, beats a stirring and joyful call to arms, forgetful of all sorrow”. It became one of his best known works.
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