Smethwick War Memorial

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Reference WMO/151994

Address:

Victoria Park

High Street

Smethwick

West Midlands

B66 1AA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Three-stepped base surmounted by Cornish granite tapering column which is shaped to form a cross on each face. Bronze figure of peace holding aloft an olive branch in one hand and a scroll in the other stands on the curved projecting base on the 6 o'clock face of the memorial. Relief panels on the sides of the granite base. The capstone is draped by a carved representation of the colours and the whole is surmounted by a bronze brazier. A brass container is set within the memorial with 1022 names of the fallen inscribed on a scroll inside it. The list of names is available to view in the associated Book of Remembrance held at Smethwick Public Library. One panel depicts the Navy and the Royal Flying Corps flanked by figures of a sailor and an airman. The other panels depicts the Army with soldiers and a gun limber. The horses of the limber are quietening the horses. This is flanked by the figures of a soldier and a nurse.
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None. Memorial roll encased inside memorial

Grade II (England)

1077115

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