- Type of Memorial
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- WMR Reference Number
- 14230
- Description
- A white marble statue of two soldiers on a gritstone pedestal and three-stepped base. The pedestal and base also bear ten marble tablets, a metal plaque and a stone wreath.
The two soldiers are manning a Vickers machine gun. Both wear 1914 pattern service dress in caps with light equipment. The gun is elevated in what appears to be an indirect fire or anti-aircraft position with the gunner crouched behind and the loader standing upright at the side. Both figures appear relaxed and very smartly dressed, as if on a training exercise rather than in action. Foliage and rubble provides the filler to make the gun tripod solid and there are two ammunition boxes by the loader's right foot. The foot of the carving bears the opening inscription inlaid in upright capital roman lettering.
The oblong gritstone ashlar pedestal has a cap stone with molded cornice and small oblong panels of foliage in relief between the eight marble tablets on its faces, three on the front, three on the back and one on each end. The tablets bear a further inscription and the WW1 names inlaid in various styles of upright lettering. A marble frieze is set into the base of the pedestal and bears an incised inscription in upright capital roman lettering.
The gritstone ashlar three-stepped base has an inclined carved stone laurel wreath at the centre flanked by a pair of inclined marble tablets bearing the WW2 inscription and names inlaid in upright capital roman lettering. A further metal plaque low on the front bears dedication information in raised upright capital lettering.
The memorial records the names of all those from the village who served in WW1 indicating the dead on a separate panel. Although the memorial is dedicated to "the men of the West Hallam", it does in fact record the names of two women who served in WW1 and one killed in WW2. Two tablets has been added to record those killed in WW2.
- Inscription
- At the foot of the figures: ROLL OF HONOUR/ MEN OF/ WEST HALLAM WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
Central tablet on 6 o'clock face of pedestal: SACRED/ To the Memory of/ (Names)/ Our Glorious Dead
Seven further tablets on faces of pedestal: (Names)
Frieze at foot of 6 o'clock face of pedestal: FOR GOD KING AND COUNTRY
Left tablet on 6 o'clock face of base: 1939 - 1945/ (Names)/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Right tablet on 6 o'clock face of base: 1939 - 1945/ (Names)/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Central plaque on 6 o'clock face of base: DEDICATED/ 6TH AUGUST 1921/ RESTORED AND/ REDEDICATED/ 8TH NOVEMBER 1998