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Title
War Memorial
Medium
bronze & granite
Accession number
B66_RA_S007
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Custodian
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Unveiling date
18th April 1926
Listing date
29/09/87
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on the right side of the column: THE / GREAT WAR / 1914–1918 / THE WORLD / WAR / 1939–1945; on the left side of the column: TO / THE / FALLEN; on a bronze plaque at the front of the monument: 'WAIT BUT FOR THE YIELD / OF ALL OUR TOIL AND – / GOD SHALL NOT FORGET.'; on a scroll held by the statue: HONOUR / JUSTICE / FREEDOM; on the base at the rear: THEIR NAME / LIVETH FOR / EVERMORE