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The work has a tall Portland stone pedestal, the upper section tapering, with a stepped base, supported on a stepped black granite plinth and stone platform. The pedestal is surmounted by a bronze figure of Victory crowned with a laurel wreath, wings outstretched, her right arm raised and her left hand holding a palm branch.

Title

Wanstead War Memorial

Date

1922

Medium

Portland stone, bronze, marble & granite

Accession number

E11_NB_S009

Acquisition method

funded by public subscription

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Redbridge London Borough Council

Custodian

Redbridge London Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

30th April 1922

Listing date

24/04/18

Access

at all times

Inscription description

on the front face : ‘MEN OF WANSTEAD / WHOM THEIR NEIGHBOURS / HEREBY COMMEMORATE / HERE NUMBERED AMONG / THOSE WHO IN THE / GREAT WAR / AT THE CALL OF / KING AND COUNTRY / LEFT ALL THAT WAS / DEAR TO THEM / ENDURED HARDSHIP / FACED DANGER AND / FINALLY PASSED OUT OF / THE SIGHT OF MEN BY / THE PATH OF DUTY AND / SELF SACRIFICE GIVING UP / THEIR OWN LIVES THAT / OTHERS MIGHT / LIVE IN / FREEDOM / LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER / SEE TO IT THAT THEIR / SACRIFICE WAS NOT IN VAIN / 1914-1918’; the head of the plaque is carved with a shield, crown and furled flags; below, a stone plaque is inscribed: 'AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE / MEN AND WOMEN WHO LAID / DOWN THEIR LIVES / IN THE 1939-1945 WAR / WE WILL REMEMBER THEM'; the four faces of the pedestal’s lower section are carved with the 199 names of the fallen; a small plaque on the base commemorates a serviceman who died in the Afghanistan conflict

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