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The war memorial consists of a pyramidal composition of figures grouped around a field gun. At the apex, standing high above the rest of the group, is Britannia. In her raised right hand she holds a trident and rests her left hand on the shoulder of a small girl whom she shelters within the folds of her cloak. Below, gathered around the field gun, are five figures. At the extreme left kneels a private soldier, looking to the right. Next to him and looking straight out, stands a captain. Both the private and the captain share a rocky background. To the right of this is the field gun, over the top of which a sailor leans. In front, and to the right, of the field gun a kneeling nurse tends to a semi-reclining wounded sergeant dressed in a kilt.
Title
News Room War Memorial, Mother and Child, and Father and Child
Date
1924
Medium
bronze & Portland stone
Measurements
H 625 x W 430 x D (?) cm
Accession number
L2_MH_S254
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Walton Group Plc
Custodian
Walton Group Plc
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
19th July 1924
Access
time restrictions apply
Access note
building opening times
Inscription description
plaque: THE BOOK OF SERVICE / LIES IN THE NEWS ROOM / PRO PATRIA / 1914-1919 / IN REMEMBRANCE OF MEMBERS OF THE Liverpool EXCHANGE / NEWSROOM WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR RIGHT AND FREEDOM / AND WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED ON THE ADJOINING TABLETS / AND OF THOSE SONS OF MEMBERS WHO LAID / DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE SAME GREAT CAUSE / IN GRATITUDE ALSO TO ALL MEMBERS AND SONS OF MEMBERS / WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY / DURING THE WAR / THE NAMES OF ALL ARE RECORDED / IN THE BOOK OF SERVICE; beneath plaque: THIS MEMORIAL WAS RE-ERECTED / IN THIS POSITION IN 1953; stone tablets: (Names of the twenty-six employees of the Liverpool Exchange News Room who fell in the First World War)