Memorial

Men Of Cambridge (The Homecoming)

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Current Location

Outside Cambridge Botanic Gardens, facing Station Road junction, Hills Road (A1307), Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1AR, England

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TL4575057342

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Serviceman / Servicewoman
WMR Reference Number: 887
Description: Bronze figure of a British soldier, surmounting a plinth with a single step base. Figure is striding forward, looking over his right shoulder with a rifle over his left shoulder and a helmet in his right hand and holds a rose. He wears a full pack, with a German helmet on the back and a wreath over the rifle. Plinth has elaborate carvings on the top half, and flush stonework on the lower half. Inscription coloured red engraved in the plinth.
Inscription: TO THE MEN OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE/ AND THE ISLE OF ELY, THE BOROUGH/ AND UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE/ WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ AND IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)

War: Second World War (1939-1945)

History

Maker(s): George Hubbard FSA, FRIBA, Architect
DR ROBERT TAIT MCKENZIE, Sculptor
Sponsor Type: public
Maintenance History: 2003: MEMORIAL DEFACED BY ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WHO STENCILLED IMAGES ONTO THE MEMORIAL 1999: PROPOSAL TO MOVE TO ROADSIDE SITE

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Unveiled

3 July 1922

HRH The Duke of York KG

Dedicated

3 July 1923

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