Memorial

Bootle

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Current Location

Stanley (or King's) Gardens, 111, Stanley Road, Bootle, Sefton, Merseyside, L20 7DA, England

SJ 34426 94658

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Type of Memorial: Sculptured / Cast group
WMR Reference Number: 1286
Description: Drum pedestal supporting a three-sided column around which are three free-standing servicemen (air force, army and navy) mother & baby surmounting the memorial. On the west side is a plaque commemorating the Liverpool escort force of WW2. Steps lead up to the memorial. Around the drum are 12 bronze plaques with raised inscriptions for WW1. Those who died in WW2 and later conflicts are on bronze plaques and lead lettered inscriptions on the original stone boundary plinth and around the steps leading up to the memorial. The group of heroic bronze figures represents the motherland and the future generations of the British Empire jealously guarded by the three great fighting forces, which kept our homes inviolate during the four terrible years of the greatest war. Also included in the memorial area is the 2016 centenary VC memorial stone for Private Arthur Procter of the Kings Liverpool Regiment, whose VC action was on 4th June 1916 Below the memorial, on the west side, there is also a modern early 21st century interpretation board.
Inscription: TOP OF MEMORIAL: IN MEMORY/ OF THE MEN OF THE/ LIVERPOOL ESCORT FORCE/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ 1939-1945 FLOOR TABLETS: (NAMES) (WW1 INSCRIPTION UNKNOWN)

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 540
Died: 540
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames, regiment
Order of names: surname
Additional Information: this figure is subject to verification as it includes 279 names on the plinth walls which may be WW1, and an unknown number on the steps which may be post ww2 conflicts