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Old 10-09-2012, 12:12   #2297
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Re: Today in pictures

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Originally Posted by Retlaw View Post
Many thanks Margaret all those freezes are WW1. Uniform, rifles, equpiment & the nurses uniform, the odd one out it the main seated soldier, the name of the sculptor is on the base, that should give date.
By Walter Marsden from Church, 1924, who also did the memorial in Gatty Park and others. No suggestion that the contorted soldier “with twisting body and clenched fist” is of a different date. See the clip in my previous links showing the unveiling.

Walter Marsden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

UK National Inventory of War Memorials : ST ANNES ON SEA

This is the architect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...#War_memorials
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